Homestead Park is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The suburb is west of the Johannesburg CBD and is adjacent to Mayfair. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
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Residents of the suburb are concerned about the authorities' poor management of the area.[2] Residents of Homestead Park informal settlement have built their dwellings over a gas pipeline set 1,5 m underground.[3] The urban poor often reside in hazard hotspots,[4] and this situation, according to a SASOL Report, is an uncontrolled safety risk.[5] Despite fires being lit over the pipeline, the relocation of settlements is being delayed by the city bureaucracy.
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Sub Place Homestead Park". Census 2011.
- ↑ "Homestead Park: Residential suburb or somebody's pasture?". 5 February 2025.
- ↑ "Sasol report warns of 'uncontrolled risk' to Johannesburg park gas pipeline". 13 June 2025.
- ↑ Abunyewah, Matthew; Gajendran, Thayaparan; Maund, Kim (2018). "Profiling Informal Settlements for Disaster Risks". Procedia Engineering. 212: 238–245. doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2018.01.031.
- ↑ "Gas time bomb still ticking in Joburg suburb". www.timeslive.co.za. Retrieved 14 February 2026.
