Boston, Bellville

Boston is a suburb in Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa founded by Americans and is one of Bellville’s oldest residential suburbs. It’s sometimes also called Boston Estate.

Boston, Bellville
The oldest house in Boston in 1st avenue
Boston, Bellville
 Boston, Bellville shown within Western Cape
Location within Cape Town
Boston, Bellville
Boston, Bellville
Boston, Bellville (South Africa)
Boston, Bellville
Boston, Bellville (Africa)
Coordinates: 33°53′42″S 18°37′24″E / 33.89500°S 18.62333°E / -33.89500; 18.62333
Country South Africa
Province Western Cape
Municipality City of Cape Town
Established 1900
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street) 7530
Area code 021

History

In 1900, a company of the United States of America bought a piece of land known as “the Willows” from a Mr Duminy. This land used to be part of Loevenstein. They decided to subdivide the land into stands and the lands’ development started.[1] The popular building style was Victorian. Bay windows, wooden floors, lead glass windows, pressed steel ceilings and wooden frame windows were also common. [2]

Name

They called the suburb Boston as a remembrance of their home city in of Boston in Massachusetts in the United States of America. Most street names in South African's Boston are all USA related for example: Broadway, Washington, Gladstone, Lincoln, Salisbury and Cleveland.[3]

Education

D.F. Malan High School , [4] Totius Primary, [5] Boston Primary, [6] (First English medium school in the Northern Suburbs[7] ) and Vredelust Primary [8] are schools located within the area.

Murder

“The Scissors Murderess”, Marlene Lehnberg and her accomplish Marthinus Charles Choegoe, murdered Susanna Magdalena van der Linde on 4 November 1974 with a pair of scissors in Gladstone Street Boston. Lehnberg had an affair with van der Linde’s husband, Christiaan. This has drawn South Africa and the world’s attention to the suburb. Judge Justice Diemont find both guilty on 12 March 1975 and after appealing the death sentence Lehnberg and Choegoe were sentenced to jail for 20 and 15 years respectively.[9]

Notable residents

Rashied Staggie former leader of the Hard Livings gang. In 2004 he was found guilty of the break in and stealing of police weapons. This happened at the Faure police station. He was sentenced to 13 years in jail. He stayed in a highly secured property in Boston. Sometimes rival gangs tried to kill him there. Crime is below average in this suburb.[10]

Francois Van Coke, stage name for Francois Badenhorst is a rock singer. His bands were called Fokofpolisiekar and Van Coke Kartel. He also acts as a solo artist. He and his wife are local residents.[11]

Donovan Wright, South African Marathon runner and Comrades marathon Gold medallist, came from an underprivileged past to end up in Boston.[12] [13]

References

  1. ↑ Rossouw,E. "Bellville: Interesante gebeurtenisse van 1861/ Tygerbergstories (Translated: Bellville: Interesting occurrences from 1861/ Tygerberg stories)". Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  2. ↑ Picton-Seymour,D. "Victorian Buildings in South Africa". Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  3. ↑ Rossouw, E. "Boston woonareas (Translated: Boston residential areas)". Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  4. ↑ "kontak (translate :Contact)". Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "Geskiedenis (Translate: History)". Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  6. ↑ "contact Boston Primary". Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  7. ↑ "School-History". Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  8. ↑ "Vredelust Primary". Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  9. ↑ "The scissors murder". Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  10. ↑ Schronen,J. "South Africa: Staggie home shot at in drive-by attack". Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  11. ↑ Malan,M. "Nou meer pappa as rocker (Translate: He is no more a dad than a rocker". Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  12. ↑ "Athletics". Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  13. ↑ "Comrades gold medal turns Wright's life around". Retrieved 8 May 2018.
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