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Haddon
Haddon
	Haddon Haddon
	Coordinates: 26°15′25″S 28°02′02″E / 26.256875°S 28.033978°E
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
Municipality	City of Johannesburg
Main Place	Johannesburg
Established	1919
Area
• Total	0.30 km2 (0.12 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	2,271
• Density	7,600/km2 (20,000/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	49.3%
• Coloured	14.2%
• Indian/Asian	5.8%
• White	29.6%
• Other	1.1%
First languages (2011)
• English	40.4%
• Afrikaans	17.2%
• Zulu	14.3%
• Sotho	5.1%
• Other	23.1%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	2190

Haddon is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Located south of the CBD, it is located close to the larger suburb of Turffontein. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

History

Prior to the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, the suburb lay on land on one of the original farms called Turffontein.^[2] It became a suburb on 26 March 1919.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Sub Place Haddon". 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.