Secunda, South Africa, Africa
Year 1974 latitude: -26° 30' longitude: 29° 11' Period Initiator(s) Sasol (Transvaal) Townships Limited Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Inhabitants 40,198 (2011) Target population 40,000 Town website Town related links http://www.mpumalanga.com/discover/regions/cosmos-country/secunda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secunda,_Mpumalanga http://www.mycities.co/south-africa/city_secunda_2300.html http://showme.co.za/secunda/about-secunda/ Literature type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
During 1974 Sasol (Transvaal) Townships Limited, a subsidiary company of Sasol Limited, was instructed to establish and develop Secunda. On 28 June 1976, the first town area was proclaimed. The town already had a population of approximately seven thousand residents. In February 1977 Secunda’s first library was opened, located in the kitchen, lounge and dining rooms of a house in Danie Theron Street. At this time a clinic service was also introduced, with personnel of the Transvaal Council for Non-Urban areas visiting Secunda twice a week. The clinic was located in the same house as the library. A permanent service with permanent personnel was established in 1978. The Health Committee was later expanded to seven committee members, of whom six were appointed by the Administrator from a list of names submitted by Sasol, whilst the remaining member was appointed by the Administrator himself. Secunda acquired Town Council status on 5 November 1985. Other important occasions were the opening of the Secunda Sports Stadium on 1 February 1986, as well as the opening and handing over of the Johannes Stegmann Theatre by Sasol Limited on 6 August 1986. On 11 November 1987 an ultra modern library was opened. This library is known as the Jan Coertzen Public Library and has a reference, an adult, children’s and a music section as well as an auditorium with conference facilities. In 1994 a community center was completed in Secunda. It was named after Rev. Casper Breedt. The layout of the town is unique in the sense that residential quarter cells were laid out which are bordered by main routes and green strips, with the result that only internal traffic is found within such cells. Access to schools, the Central Business District and the suburban shopping centres is made easier for pedestrians and cyclists as the green strips are free from vehicles and the distance to be travelled is shorter. Today distinctive features of the landscape around Secunda are the massive cooling towers, high chimneys and the steel structures unique to the South-African oil-from-coal industry. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secunda,_Mpumalanga#Proclamation
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