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￼Kathorus

A township 35km south east of Johannesburg, divided into three municipalities of Katlehong, Thokoza and Vosloorus. Established between the 1920s and early 1940s for the Rand mine workers, with Katlehong being the oldest of the three, the township has grown over the years along with the South African population. Almost 100 years later, Kathorus has seen new establishments of informal settlements all around its outskirts as the population grew, with many African immigrants flooding the country for greener pastures and as asylum seekers. Though slow, developments have been made and new surrounding townships were and are still being built to accommodate the growing number of people in the city. Standing on top of an old and historic military airbase Palmietfontein Airport and being under the council of the Greater Alberton, Boksburg and Germiston, Kathorus shares a very rich history and is one of the important sites of South African history.

Thokoza under Alberton has later established the townships of Phola Park, Eden Park, and Thinasonke. With Vosloorus overseeing the establishments of Vosloorus EXT 28, EXT 20 (which seperates it from Katlehong on the southern western outskirts), EXT 16 & 31, Peter Mokaba (an informal settlement just outside EXT 28), Rondebult, Villa Lisa, Dawn Park, Ka Wolf (an informal settlement on the eastern outskirts), Mapleton, Windmill Park and Holomisa (another informal settlement just before Boksburg Prison, west of Windmill Park). And Katlehong being the biggest of the three townships, has also massively grown with a number of sub-townships being established and most big enough to stand independently. A middle-class suburb Spruitview in the north east of Katlehong was built in the late 70s to early 80s that connects to Vosloorus and Leondale (a formerly white-only neighborhood that now boasts less than 10% of whites in the entire residency), seperated from Katlehong by a river stream Natalspruit and Leondale (N3 highway cuts between Spruitview and Leondale), connects to Phumula Gardens and Phumula which neighbors Rondebult (a Boksburg/Vosloorus extension) that is closer to Buhle Park under Germiston/Katlehong administration. To the south, Palm Ridge stands, divided into middle-class suburbs and low-class RDP settlements, it is home to the township's Indian population and a small Coloured community with Africans dominating. On its west lies Eden Park (an Alberton/Thokoza Coloured people's settlement) and to its east there's Tsietsi (a large and growing RDP settlement dominated by Africans) seperated by the river stream Natalspruit to its east, lies Moleleki on the south east of Katlehong which neighbors Vosloorus EXT 20 and 28 and cut out of Katlehong by the Natalspruit. Further south from Moleleki, Zonkizizwe appears, a very big and growing township on its own dating back to the early 80s, though under the council of Katlehong/Germiston. Neighboring Zonkizizwe easterly, Magagula is the furthest and most outskirt lower-middle-class suburb of Katlehong and it stands almost 20 km away of its municipal administrator and connects Kathorus, Ekurhuleni to Heidelberg. It is the last neighborhood of Kathorus and was established in the early 1980s. On the south west of Palm Ridge and Eden Park, a new independent middle-class city is being built. Under the Midvaal Municipality, Sky City now connects Kathorus, Ekurhuleni to Vaal which is a district in Vereeniging, south of Gauteng.