28-701: (Redirected from M-37 ) M37 or M-37 may refer to: M-37 (Michigan highway) , a state highway in Michigan M37 (Johannesburg) , a Metropolitan Route in Johannesburg, South Africa M37 (Pretoria) , a Metropolitan Route in Pretoria, South Africa M37 (Durban) , a Metropolitan Route in Durban, South Africa M37 highway , a highway in Turkmenistan Dodge M37 ,
56-412: A memorial to his pioneer work in the city over a hundred years ago. According to the 2001 census , the population of Germiston consisted of 139,719 people living in 49,062 households, and its land area was 129 square kilometres (50 sq mi). Of this population, 49.8% described themselves as " White ", 46.8% as " Black African ", 1.9% as " Coloured ", and 1.5% as " Indian or Asian ". No language
84-471: A military truck Ithaca M37 , an American shotgun Messier 37 , a star cluster 82-BM-37 , an infantry mortar Infiniti M37 , a Japanese luxury car M37 machine gun. Cal. .30 Browning adapted for tank use. M1919 Browning machine gun M37 105 mm howitzer motor carriage , WWII-era armored artillery Ruleville-Drew Airport Smith & Wesson Model 37 , a gun sold and used by Japanese police departments. [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
112-400: A very large and active music centre for a number of years, which grew largely due to the work of the late George Burgess. The various jazz and concert bands that were the product of the music centre recorded various long playing records, won awards in various Eisteddfods and national competitions and appeared on television. Sadly, due to education department budget restructuring, the music centre
140-589: Is a city in the East Rand region of Gauteng , South Africa , administratively forming part of the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality since the latter's establishment in 2000. It functions as the municipal seat of Ekurhuleni, hosting the municipal council and administration. Originally a mining town established in 1886 at the start of the Witwatersrand Gold Rush , Germiston has since developed into one of
168-756: Is also the location of Rand Airport , at one time one of the busiest in Africa and the southern hemisphere. Today it caters largely for light aircraft and flying schools, but is also home to the South African Airways Museum. As a result of this, two of the earlier Boeing 747 Jumbo aircraft used by SAA now reside there on permanent display. Germiston is served by the Bertha Gxowa Hospital, a public state hospital. Other private hospitals include Life Roseacres Hospital in Primrose. The oldest high school in
196-479: Is better known today simply as Germiston Lake, however, the famous Sailing and Rowing Club retains the name of the Victoria Lake Club. The club is home to some of the best canoeists and rowing crews in the country, including the twenty-time South African School Champions, St Benedict's College. The lake is very popular at weekends for water-skiing and regattas. The lake grounds have recently been re-landscaped and
224-594: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages M37 (Johannesburg) The M37 is a metropolitan route in Greater Johannesburg , South Africa . It connects the N3 at Greenstone Shopping Mall with Katlehong via Edenvale and Germiston . The M37 begins at Longmeadow Business Estate west of Modderfontein as an off-ramp of the N3 highway ( Johannesburg Eastern Bypass ). It begins by going southwards to meet
252-549: Is the main road southwards through Germiston Central, co-signed with the M53 , up to the Georgetown section, where it becomes Voortrekker Street westwards before becoming Joubert Street to the south-west. It reaches Germiston Lake, where it meets Refinery Road ( M93 road ) and becomes Lake Road. Just after, at the entrance to Rand Airport , it becomes Russell Road and bypasses the Airport to
280-757: The N12 South ; On the southern side, the N17 and N3 and in the north, the N12 East and the R24 service the city. Being a mining and industrial city, Germiston is serviced by passenger rail and the CBD has several stations, the main one being Germiston Station. The industrial areas are serviced by rail spurs and stations and the Transnet has a large depot north of the CBD in Keswick Road. Germiston
308-668: The R25 road (Modderfontein Road) and bypass the Greenstone Shopping Centre west of Greenstone Hill . It continues southwards as Lungile Mtshali Road (formerly Van Riebeeck Road and Edenvale Road ), to enter the town of Edenvale and bypass the town centre as Andries Pretorius Road before becoming 17th Avenue. Crossing Horwood Street ( M16 ), the route becomes Hurlyvale Avenue then St. John Avenue before it t-junctions with Lungile Mtshali Road again, and turns south. South of Edenvale, at
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#1732851349766336-512: The 2002 Nobel Prize . The Germiston Boys' High School cadet band was known throughout South Africa as one of the greatest school cadet bands ever to compete and parade in South Africa.The band started its success from the year 1952, running up to and including 1964. Often the band would record an average mark of 99 percent overall. (Music performance, drumming, bugle and trumpet ensemble, along with drill, dress and discipline). The school boasted
364-573: The 20th century it was no longer a mining centre, the Rand Refinery remains as busy as ever. The city has a number of historic buildings. Among these are the St Andrew's Presbyterian Church which was built in 1905, and St Boniface Church designed by Sir Herbert Baker , which was built in 1910 (this is the second church on the site, as the Anglican Parish was founded in 1897). The church also houses
392-528: The Germiston Simmer Rugby Club and has a tartan track for athletics. By 1931, the Germiston municipality had assumed a pseudo-heraldic coat of arms, depicting (1) buck in the veld, (2) a scene showing mineshafts, (3) a railway train in a landscape, and (4) a half-tented ox-wagon in a landscape, the quarters separated by a red cross. The motto was Salus populi suprema lex . A proper coat of arms
420-632: The braai areas and shelters rebuilt. The WesBank Raceway motorsports facility was located in the city, but it was sold to industrial estate developers in November 2007. The Raceway was formerly the Gosforth Park Race Club, one of the major horse racing facilities in Gauteng. Germiston Stadium (formerly the Herman Immelman Stadium) is also located in the city. This is also the home ground for
448-492: The city is part of the combined St Catherine's School , an independent Catholic school which was founded by the Dominican Sisters under the leadership of Mother Rose Nyland in the city centre in 1908. The school then relocated to Piercy Avenue in the suburb of Parkhill Gardens in the 1940s. Today it accommodates more than 600 pupils and is considered to be one of the leading private schools in Gauteng. Germiston High School
476-654: The east before crossing the N17 toll highway as Wits Rifles Drive. From the N17 junction, it continues southwards as Black Reef Road, through the suburb of Wadeville, to reach an interchange with the R554 / R103 (Heidelberg Road). It becomes Masakhane Street and passes under the N3 highway to enter the township of Katlehong , where it ends at the junction with Kgotso Street west of the Katlehong Railway Station. Germiston Germiston , also known as kwaDukathole,
504-549: The farm Elandsfontein and decided to stay and buy a half-interest in the farm. On 20 September 1886, Elandsfontein and the neighbouring farm Driefontein were proclaimed public diggings by the government of the South African Republic , and the town of Elandsfontein sprang up around the Simmer and Jack mine, centred on the township of Germiston (site of today's Germiston CBD), laid out by Simmer and Jack 2 km from
532-561: The historic 1910 English Romantic Norman and Beard Organ. The Alexander Hotel was also partly designed by Baker, using his traditional stone appearance. This building has recently been completely renovated and now houses a well-known law firm. The builder of the hotel, Alexander Stuart, some of whose descendants still live in Germiston, died when the RMS Lusitania was torpedoed in the First World War on 7 May 1915. The hotel thus remains
560-639: The largest manufacturing, trucking and railway hubs in Africa, and is a major centre of the South African steel industry. Germiston was established in the early days of the gold rush when two prospectors, John Jack from the farm of Germiston near Glasgow and August Simmer from Vacha in Germany, struck paydirt on the farm of Elandsfontein . In August 1886, the pair were on their way to the Eastern Transvaal when they outspanned (rested their pack animals) on
588-519: The mine and named after Jack's father's farm. Both men made fortunes, and in 1904, after the Second Boer War , the town was renamed Germiston. In 1921, the world's largest gold refinery, the Rand Refinery , was established at Germiston. Seventy percent of the western world's gold passes through this refinery. Although gold mining gradually wound down in Germiston, to the point that by the end of
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644-748: The suburb of Primrose and reach a junction with the R29 road (Main Reef Road). It meets the southern terminus of the M57 road at the same junction. The R29 joins the M37 and they are one road up to the next junction, where the R29 turns east and the M37 becomes the road south-westwards (Johan Rissik Road) to enter the Germiston City Centre. The M37 becomes Victoria Street northwards and Meyer Street southwards (one-way streets) and
672-599: The suburb of Meadowbrook, the M37 crosses the R24 highway (Albertina Sisulu Freeway) and meets the western terminus of the M99 road before crossing the N12 highway and entering the city of Germiston , bypassing Bedfordview to the east. From the N12 junction, the M37 goes southwards firstly as A G De Witt Drive (meeting the M52 road just after the N12 junction), then as Shamrock Road, to pass through
700-565: The supporters were two eland, each resting a foot on an heraldic fountain (a white and blue striped disc); the motto was Salus populi suprema lex . Germiston is well-connected to five major freeways or motorways that service the Greater Johannesburg region. These include to the west of Germiston, the M2 motorway that connects to the southern Johannesburg CBD , the N3 Eastern Bypass and
728-691: Was founded in 1917 alongside Victoria Lake; from the 1940s to 1963, the girls were based in Fourth Avenue in Lambton, at what was known as Germiston Girls' High School, whilst the boys remained at the 1917 campus as Germiston Boys' High School. In 1964, due to the need to relocate the Afrikaans Delville Primary School, the girls were moved back to combine with the boys in the original historic buildings. The school celebrated its centenary in 2017. Famous past pupils include Dr Sydney Brenner, winner of
756-714: Was granted by the College of Arms in August 1935. It was registered with the Transvaal Provincial Administration in August 1963 and at the Bureau of Heraldry in February 1968. The arms were: Gules, within two bendlets Or between two ox wagons Argent, three bezants (i.e. a red shield displaying three gold coins between two diagonal gold lines between two ox-wagons). The crest was a rising falcon (representing Rand Airport);
784-521: Was predominant, with the breakdown of first languages being as follows: South African Airways moved its head office from Durban to Rand Airport in Germiston on 1 July 1935. It later moved the offices first to Johannesburg , then to Kempton Park . The city is an industrial centre with steel manufacture and distribution being the largest industries. It has large railway workshops, a large glassworks, engineering companies, gas distribution firms, and many other heavy and light industries. Victoria Lake
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