Hatfield, Pretoria
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 University of Pretoria's Administration building ("Die skip") on its Hatfield campus | |
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| Coordinates: 25°44′53″S 28°14′17″E / 25.748°S 28.238°E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Gauteng |
| Municipality | City of Tshwane |
| Main Place | Pretoria |
| Area | |
• Total | 1.97 km2 (0.76 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 9,274 |
| • Density | 4,700/km2 (12,000/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 50.8% |
| • Coloured | 2.5% |
| • Indian/Asian | 5.3% |
| • White | 43.9% |
| • Other | 1.4% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • English | 33.1% |
| • Afrikaans | 28.9% |
| • Tswana | 7.0% |
| • Zulu | 6.0% |
| • Other | 25.0% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Postal code (street) | 0002 |
| PO box | 0028 |
| Area code | 012 |
Hatfield is a suburb in Pretoria, South Africa with a high density of students as well as student accommodation due to its close proximity to the University of Pretoria's main campus.
The suburb was proclaimed on a portion of land previously belonging to Koedoespoort, which was owned by Lourens Cornelius Bronkhorst in the nineteenth century. An heir to Bronkhorst's estate sold the farm in 1885 to the Wesleyan Methodist Society. The land was sold again in 1903, after the Second Boer War. It was purchased by the Colonial Secretary of the Transvaal, Patrick Duncan. The suburb is named after Hatfield House, an estate in Hertfordshire, England that belonged to William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne, who became Governor of the Transvaal in 1905.
The first business in Hatfield was the Hatfield Bakery, which was opened by Sakkie Andrews in 1932. This was later followed by the Rissik Station Stores and the multi-storey Hatfield Galleries on Burnett Street. Since the late 1980s, the character of Hatfield has changed rapidly as more and more businesses have been established in the area and today it is a mixed-use neighborhood with only 18% of the surface area still residential in nature.[2]
Transport
The suburb is served by the Gautrain. The Hatfield Gautrain station is located within the Hatfield Business Node east of the Pretoria CBD.
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