Erasmia is a suburb in the northern outskirts of
Centurion
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in the
City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality
The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (; ; ), also known as the City of Tshwane (), is the Metropolitan municipality (South Africa), metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of northern Gauteng in South Africa. The metro ...
. Originally a whites-only area under
apartheid
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, increasing numbers of
Indians
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Associated with indigenous peoples o ...
from neighbouring
Laudium
Laudium () is an Indian township southwest of central Pretoria, in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. Claudius is a residential suburb that is effectively an extension of Laudium.
History
Older aerial photographs show remains of ...
moved in, following the abolition of segregation in the early 1990s, and the construction of a direct link road between the two areas. Erasmia lies west of the
R55 route. In 2001, 65.72% of the population was Indian,
Sub Place Erasmia
''Census 2001'' and by 2011, Indians made up 77.03% of the population.
History
It became a suburb on 4 September 1946 and was named after WFE Erasmus.[
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References
Suburbs of Centurion, Gauteng
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