Laudium Today 

Today Laudium finds itself prided for its well known executive businessman, dynamic leaders in the media, exclusive luxury homes and smart cars. However, Laudium can boast about its unified community. Although there may be disputes about Laudium being a unified community, there exists many communities and events that bring the community together, furthermore the cultures and traditions that are custom to the average Indian bring upon a likeness and understanding that spurs an affinity and love for the community. 

Laudium of Tomorrow

Laudium finds itself towards a path to a bright future, however, the major challenges that face Laudium are community segregation, space for expansion- creating distances, and last but not least crime. A series of crime events has brought about an awareness about safety and created fear. The community working together has developed various solutions to fight crime thus improving the standard of living conditions. Although there are various areas for improvement in Laudium, the community does pride itself having a voice in the media, yet the community must continue to strive together to work together, take an active part and ensure together a better Laudium for us all. 

History, Development, Facts Laudium

Laudium is an Indian township in Centurion (City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality), South Africa. It was a settlement formed under the apartheid government as part of their segregation policy aimed at moving ethnic groups out of Marabastad and central Pretoria, which were being zoned as 'White Areas' around 1950. Laudium was proclaimed an Indian township in 1961. As for its former inhabitants, older aerial photographs still show remains of circular type dwellings to the west of Laudium. Laudium has 3 extensions which were completed in 1976, 1978 and 1983, respectively.The original name for Laudium was Claudius, (originally reserved for White residents), named after a Claudius Marais de Vries who owned a farm called Mooiplats and was the mayor of Pretoria at the time. The eastern portion of the original Claudius retained its name and white population for a time, but the white population of Claudius has long since been displaced by Indians, and Claudius has effectively become an extension of Laudium. Interestingly, the boundary between Laudium and Claudius is not widely known, even by residents of the two areas. It is widely thought that the R55 road divides the suburbs, but Claudius, in fact, lies on both sides of the R55 and the dividing line lies well within what is commonly believed to be part of Laudium. For example, Sunrise School and a municipal garden refuse dump are actually part of Claudius, even though they lie on the "Laudium side" of the R55.As apartheid ended, many residents of Laudium relocated to the neighbouring (formerly whites-only) suburbs of Erasmia and Christoburg which lie south of Laudium, and many lower income residents (many who lived in an area called White Blocks) were relocated in the early 1990s to a new township called Lotus Gardens. A road was eventually built to link Erasmia and Laudium directly (due to apartheid, the areas had not been linked directly, despite being adjacent to each other).Laudium has roughly equal numbers of Hindu and Muslim residents, with a large number of mosques and temples. Many of the Muslim residents are Memons [1]. There are also many recent South Asian (Indian and Pakistani) residents, who immigrated to South Africa after the end of Apartheid.During 1981, an Umkhonto weSizwe rocket attack on the Voortrekkerhoogte (now Thaba Tshwane) military base was launched from Laudium [2][3]. The homes of local politicians who supported Apartheid were also bombed in the 1980s.Although Laudium was initially part of Pretoria, it was incorporated into Centurion following the end of apartheid. Centurion, including Laudium, was incorporated into the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in 2000.Laudium is a relatively wealthy area (which is unusual for a township), with very large mansions visible from the R55 road (although technically many of these homes are in Claudius, not Laudium).The black township of Atteridgeville lies directly north of Laudium, although the two areas are separated by a large hill called Kwaggakop, and no direct road link exists between the two.Laudium is prone to sinkholes that occasionally cause significant property damage due to dolomite in the area. History, Development, Facts brought to you by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudium