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richmond johannesburg wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 references toggle the table of contents richmond johannesburg 1 language afrikaans edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide coordinates 26 10 52 4 s 28 0 47 2 e 26 181222 s 28 013111 e 26 181222 28 013111 from wikipedia the free encyclopedia place in gauteng south africa the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guideline for settlements and administrative regions please help demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention if notability cannot be shown the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted find sources richmond johannesburg news newspapers books scholar jstor june 2025 learn how and when to remove this message suburb in gauteng south africa richmond points of interest suburb interactive map of richmond points of interest richmond points of interest location in south africa coordinates 26 10 52 4 s 28 0 47 2 e 26 181222 s 28 013111 e 26 181222 28 013111 country south africa province gauteng municipality city of johannesburg main place johannesburg richmond is a small centrally located suburb in johannesburg whose edwardian art deco and mid century modern houses are being both gentrified and torn down citation needed this small well established region overlooks the leafy suburbs of westcliff and parktown north the area is bordered by empire road melville and the auckland park johannesburg country club the suburb of richmond was established in 1893 1 or 1896 2 located approximately 3 5 km northwest of the city hall the total of 227 stands that made up this middle class settlement were established on a portion of the braamfontein farm that louw geldenhuys sold for 300 000 3 in 1962 the finest industrial research laboratory was opened in richmond 4 and this suburb was also one of the first sites for black entrepreneurs in early johannesburg 5 zulu men from kwazulu natal members of the amawasha or zulu washerment formed a guild 6 laundry work among zulu men was a prestigious occupation and pay was handsome the amawasha had its history in a precolonial artisanal associations which practiced hide dressing 7 in their laundering work the amawasha recalled the specialist craft of hide dressing this powerful group of approximately 1200 african washermen would clean the mining town s dirty laundry 8 things began to change with a drought in 1895 9 in 1902 an american entrepreneur and laundryman frank oscar nelson established steam laundry and competed with two other foreign owned laundry businesses the crystal steam laundry and the auckland park steam laundry however by 1914 the amawasha s efforts had been eclipsed and rand steam laundries would do the washing ironing dying and dry cleaning of dirty clothes up until 1962 1 collage of amawasha bricks photographed at rand steam shopping centre today the social history of these early entrepreneurs are recognized in rand steam shopping centre while most of the original buildings were illegally demolished in 2008 the remaining structures were declared heritage sites by the johannesburg heritage foundation and amawasha bricks are inserted into the walls 10 richmond residents have a wide variety of amenities in walking distance including 44 stanley love books rand steam shopping centre 11 and bamboo centre and boxpark inspired 27 boxes soccer sports fields and melville koppies maintain an impression of a small highveld town 12 references edit 1 2 archived copy pdf archived from the original pdf on 2020 02 29 cite web cs1 maint archived copy as title link the vanished world of mr man tong and his shop at 25 stanley avenue richmond the heritage portal theheritageportal co za retrieved 2025 03 18 joburg s only dry suburb play in joburg shorten j r 1970 the johannesburg saga south africa john r shorten proprietary limited the battle to rebuild jo burg s historic laundry buildings has finally been won the mail guardian retrieved 2025 08 14 atkins k e 1986 origins of the amawasha the zulu washermen s guild in natal 1850 1910 the journal of african history 27 1 41 57 http www jstor org stable 181336 van onselen c 1982 amawasha the zulu washermen s guild on the witwaters rand 1890 1914 studies in the social and economic history of the witwatersrand 1886 1914 ii london 74 100 amawasha jozi s first black businessmen the heritage portal theheritageportal co za amawasha jozi s first black businessmen the heritage portal theheritageportal co za retrieved 2025 08 14 rand steam laundries richmond johannesburg the heritage portal www theheritageportal co za retrieved 2026 05 20 rand steam impendulo retrieved 2026 05 20 melville koppies farmers and miners www mk org za retrieved 2026 05 20 places adjacent to richmond johannesburg melville koppies parkview westcliff auckland park richmond braamfontein werf uj cottesloe wits university this geography of johannesburg related article is a stub you can help wikipedia by adding missing information v t e retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title richmond _johannesburg oldid 1370304086 categories johannesburg region b johannesburg stubs gauteng geography stubs hidden categories articles with short description short 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