Bellevue is an inner city neighbourhood of

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu language, Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a Megacity#List of megacities, megacity, and is List of urban areas by p ...

Gauteng Province Gauteng ( ) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. The name in Sotho-Tswana languages means 'place of gold'. Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts for only 1 ...

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. Close to the Johannesburg CBD with the neighbourhood surrounded by

Yeoville Yeoville is an inner city neighbourhood of Johannesburg, in the province of Gauteng, South Africa. It is located in Region F (previously Region 8). It is widely known and celebrated for its diverse, pan-African population but notorious for it ...

and

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. It is located in Region F of the

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. It shares the same praise and notoriety as its surrounding neighbourhood Yeoville. The neighbourhood today is usually called Yeoville due to their very close proximity, same demographics and notoriety, leading to the whole area now known as Greater Yeoville, combining Bellevue, Bellevue East and Yeoville. It is home to the Yeoville Hotel.

History

The suburb is situated on part of an old

Witwatersrand The Witwatersrand () (locally the Rand or, less commonly, the Reef) is a , north-facing scarp in South Africa. It consists of a hard, erosion-resistant quartzite metamorphic rock, over which several north-flowing rivers form waterfalls, which ...

farm called ''Doornfontein''. It was established in 1890 and is either named after the land developer ''Bellevue Township Syndicate'' or the view of the city to the west and view to the

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mountain range in the north.

Culture

Rockey Street is known for its lively bars and clubs, a hotspot for black nightlife although has a bad reputation for public alcohol consumption and illegal street dealings such as guns and drugs. The neighbourhood shares all its characteristics (both positive and negative) with surrounding and adjacent Yeoville

References

Johannesburg Region F {{Gauteng-geo-stub