Orange Farm

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Township in Gauteng, South Africa

title: "Orange Farm" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["johannesburg-region-g", "townships-in-gauteng"] description: "Township in Gauteng, South Africa" topic_path: "general/johannesburg-region-g" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Farm" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Township in Gauteng, South Africa ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]

Field	Value
name	Orange Farm
other_name	Farmton
image_skyline	Protesting Youth.jpg
image_caption	Orange Farm Youth Protest
pushpin_map	South Africa Gauteng#South Africa
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	South Africa
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Gauteng
subdivision_type3	Municipality
subdivision_name3	City of Johannesburg
subdivision_type4	Main Place
established_title	Established
established_date	1988
leader_party	ANC
leader_title	Councillor
leader_name	Motha
area_footnotes
area_total_km2	12.16
population_footnotes
population_total	76767
population_as_of	2011
population_density_km2	auto
	demographics_type1
demographics1_footnotes
demographics1_title1	Black African
demographics1_info1	99.3%
demographics1_title2	Coloured
demographics1_info2	0.3%
demographics1_title3	Indian/Asian
demographics1_info3	0.1%
demographics1_title4	White
demographics1_info4	0.1%
demographics1_title5	Other
demographics1_info5	0.2%
	demographics_type2
demographics2_footnotes
demographics2_title1	Zulu
demographics2_info1	44.5%
demographics2_title2	Sotho
demographics2_info2	29.1%
demographics2_title3	Xhosa
demographics2_info3	9.5%
demographics2_title4	Tsonga
demographics2_info4	4.1%
demographics2_title5	Other
demographics2_info5	12.8%
	timezone1
utc_offset1	+2
postal_code_type	Postal code (street)
postal_code	1805
postal2_code_type	PO box
postal2_code	1805
area_code_type	Area code
area_code	1841
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Orange Farm ("Farma") is a township located approximately 45 km from Johannesburg in the Gauteng Province of South Africa. It is the southernmost township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Its name, a misnomer given that oranges are grown in orchards instead of farms, has Dutch origins. It is one of the youngest townships in South Africa, with the original inhabitants, laid-off farm workers, taking up residency in 1988. Support for the population came slowly mostly from people who were tenants at the larger township of Soweto.

Demographics

Approximately 85% of the people work in Johannesburg. Most of the people use trains to get to work. 35% of the residents are unemployed.

Infrastructure and Public Services Delivery

Public services delivery

The Orange Farm Water Crisis Committee, an offshoot of the South African Anti-Privatization Forum (AFP), has been very vocal and active against the privatization of water.

Infrastructure

Orange Farm is a rapidly growing township with great infrastructural developments each year. The township has a large main clinic (Stretford Clinic) and several minor clinics. The township's main roads are tarred and several minor streets may be tarred but in questionable condition. Orange farm has a small official library, permanent housing for many residents (mainly government housing). Electricity is readily available to most places with only a few areas without electricity (including the Squatter camp in Drieziek 5). The town has a large multi-purpose community center.

However, these improvements come with financial costs, which most of the citizens living in Orange Farm cannot afford. The ongoing privatization of Orange Farm has also drawn much criticism from social justice and human rights groups as they have pointed out that local small businesses keep dying. This can also be linked to the rising number of foreign owned shops in the area. A lot has been done to improve Orange Farm; it now has more than two parks and a two floor mall (Eyethu Orange Farm Mall). However, nearly all areas still need improvement.

Parks

Mountain Road Park (opened 12 October 2014) is situated in Orange Farm Ext 2, 1 km away from Eyethu Orange Farm Mall. This park sits where there used to be a soccer/football pitch of Ext 2 (Liver Pool Grounds). ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Sunday_Chilled_Vibes.jpg" caption="Orange Farm residents at the park"] ::

Climate

Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as subtropical highland (Cwb).

|source 1 = Climate-Data.org, altitude: 1667m

References

"Main Place Orange Farm". Census 2011.
"Orange Farm, South Africa". City of Johannesburg.
"Stretford Clinic | Yellow Pages South Africa".
"Mountain Road Park".
"eyethu Orange Farm Mall".
"Climate: Soweto - Climate graph, Temperature graph, Climate table". Climate-Data.org.

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