Morningside, Gauteng

Morningside
Morningside
	Morningside Morningside
	Coordinates: 26°04′42″S 28°03′45″E / 26.0782°S 28.0625°E
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
Municipality	City of Johannesburg
Main Place	Sandton
Established	1950
Area
• Total	6.24 km2 (2.41 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	15,723
• Density	2,500/km2 (6,500/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	28.6%
• Coloured	2.2%
• Indian/Asian	18.1%
• White	48.2%
• Other	2.9%
First languages (2011)
• English	65.9%
• Afrikaans	5.7%
• Zulu	4.3%
• Tswana	2.4%
• Other	21.6%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	2196
PO box	2057

Morningside is a commercial and residential suburb of Johannesburg in Sandton, South Africa, located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. As a part of the former Sandton municipality, it constitutes many affluent residential areas as well as small and medium business enterprises, clinics, schools, hotels and shopping centres.

History

The suburb is situated on part of an old Witwatersrand farm called Zandfontein.^[2] It was established on 8 March 1950.^[2] The suburb may be named for a suburb of the same name in southern Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. It has been home to Bet David (previously Temple David), a Progressive Jewish congregation since the 1970s.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Sub Place Morningside". Census 2011.
^ ^a ^b Raper, Peter E.; Moller, Lucie A.; du Plessis, Theodorus L. (2014). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 1412. ISBN 9781868425501.
^ Johannesburg congregations over the years Progressive Jews. Retrieved on 2 February 2025