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Mountain View is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

History

The suburb is situated on part of an old Witwatersrand farm called Klipfontein.[2] It was established in 1902 and was named because of it view of the northern Magaliesberg mountains.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Sub Place Mountain View". Census 2011.
  2. ^ 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.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_View,_Gauteng