Crawford, Cape Town

Crawford, Cape Town
Crawford
—  Suburb  —
Country  South Africa
Province Western Cape
Municipality City of Cape Town
Wards
Time zone SAST (UTC+2)
Postal code

Crawford is a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, located to the East of the City Centre (CBD) on the Cape Flats to the South of the N2 highway. The suburb is surrounded by the suburbs of Lansdowne, Rondebosch East, Athlone, Belthorn Estate, Rylands, and Belgravia. The main roads through the area are (North to South) Jan Smuts Drive (M17) and (East to West) Turf Hall Road (M24) linking to the M5. Crawford is served by a railway station of the same name on the Cape Flats Line.

Crawford is the home of City Park Stadium into where more than thirty thousand people attended the funeral of Imam Abdullah Haron.[citation needed] He had been arrested by the apartheid security police just after he had led the al-Jaami’a Masjid Milad al-Nabi celebrations on 12 Rabi al-Auwal 1389AH (28 May 1969); and was held under Section 6(1)of the Terrorism Act of 1967 until his death on Saturday, 27 September 1969.

In November 1998 Nelson Mandela was a guest speaker at Crawford’s College Of Cape Town, formerly Hewitt's Teachers' Training College, a landmark on the apartheid struggle map. He spoke to the residents of Athlone, custodians of the famous Klipfontein Road, that had survived many of the suburbs apartheid altercations.

Coordinates: 33°59′S 18°30′E / 33.983°S 18.5°E / -33.983; 18.5


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