Akasiapark, Residential Area for Civil Servants

Coordinates: -33.5812, 18.5956
Updated: 27 Apr 2020

Residential area for civil servants, members of parliament and railway officials, laid out on part of Wingfield, a former Naval Aerodome named Sassar from 1947 to 1 December 1959, then Acacia Park after the Port Jackson Willows growing there.

The SA Navy is to relocate its sprawling technical training school, SAS Wingfield, along with some depots from a run down World War II-era site near Goodwood-Cape Town

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Akasiapark, Residential Area for Civil Servants

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01New Dictionary of South African Place Names by Peter E. Raper.

Last updated · 27 Apr 2020

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South African History Online. (2016, September 19). Akasiapark, Residential Area for Civil Servants. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/P-0121893

South African History Online (2016) 'Akasiapark, Residential Area for Civil Servants', South African History Online, 19 September. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/P-0121893 (Accessed: 26 July 2026).

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"Akasiapark, Residential Area for Civil Servants." South African History Online, 19 Sept. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/P-0121893. Accessed 26 July 2026.

South African History Online. "Akasiapark, Residential Area for Civil Servants." South African History Online. September 19, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/P-0121893.