Protea Glen is a township of

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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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, located north of

Lenasia Lenasia, often called Lenz, is a suburb south of Soweto in the Gauteng province, South Africa, originally created to house Indians. It is part of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Lenasia is approximately 35 kilometres sout ...

and west of

Soweto Soweto () is a township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for ''South Western Townships''. Formerly a s ...

. The suburb was developed in the 1990s for middle-class residents.(5 June 2013)
As the Black Middle Class Grows In S. Africa, So Does Need For Better Housing
, ''Empower Magazine'' The first shopping mall in the town, Protea Glen Mall, opened in October 2012.(2 October 2012)
New Soweto mall
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The Sowetan ''The Sowetan'' is an English-language South African daily newspaper that started in 1981 as a liberation struggle newspaper and was freely distributed to households in the then apartheid-segregated township of Soweto, Johannesburg, Gauteng ...

'' and also there are many schools like Basa Tutorial Institute, Faranani Primary School, Protea Glen Secondary School and ACUDEO COLLEGE. 1,2

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