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| • | Laudium is an Indian township in Centurion (Tshwane metropolitan area), South Africa. It was a settlement formed under the apartheid government as part of their segregation policy aimed at moving ethnic groups out of Marabastad and central Pretoria, which were being zoned as 'White Areas' around 1950. Laudium was proclaimed an Indian township in 1961.Laudium has 3 extensions which were completed in 1976, 1978 and 1983, respectively.
The original name for Laudium was Claudius, (originally reserved for White residents), named after a Claudius Marais de Vries who owned afarm called Mooiplats and was the mayor of Pretoria at the time. A portion of the original Claudius retained its name and white population for a time, but the white population of Claudius has long since been displaced by Indians, and Claudius has effectively become an extension of Laudium. Interestingly, the boundry between Laudium and Claudius is not widely known, even by residents of the two areas. It is widely thought that the R55 road divides the suburbs, but Claudius, in fact, lies on both sides of the R55 and the dividing line lies well within what is commonly believed to be part of Laudium. For example, Sunrise School and a municipal garden refuse dump are actually part of Claudius, even though they lie on the "Laudium side" of the R55.
As apartheid ended, many residents of Laudium relocated to the neighbouring (formerly whites-only) suburbs of Erasmia and Christoburg, and many lower income residents (many who lived in an area called White Blocks) were relocated in the early 1990s to a new township called Lotus Gardens. A road was eventually built to link Erasmia, and Laudium directly.
Laudium has roughly equal numbers of Hindu and Muslim residents, with a large number of mosques and temples. Many of the Muslim residents are Memons. There are also many recent South Asian (Indian and Pakistani) residents, who immigrated to South Africa after the end of Ap
Source: [wikipedia: laudium, gauteng]
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