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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Riviera, Gauteng
Riviera is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

History

The suburb is situated on part of an old Witwatersrand farm called Braamfontein. It would be proclaimed as a suburb on 31 July 1903 as is named after the French or Italian Riviera.

References

  1. ^ "Sub Place Riviera". Census 2011.
  2. ^ Raper, Peter E.; Moller, Lucie A.; du Plessis, Theodorus L. (2014). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 1412. ISBN 9781868425501.
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