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'Reiger Park' is a coloured township situated in Boksburg on the east Rand, Gauteng, South Africa. It was established as Stirtonville after the Second World War when was an influx of people from the rural areas seeking work on the gold mines. In 1963 due to the apartheid government's policy of separate development, the Africans were removed to Vosloorus, the Indians to Actonville and the coloured people were left to stay in Stirtonville, which was then renamed Reiger Park.
The locals have given their own unofficial names to the different areas of Reiger Park, for example Jerusalem (due to the many churches in that area), Excuse me (due to the houses so close together that when you sneeze, your neighbour says bless you) and Popcorn (a new area developed in the 1990s with the houses popping up so fast that they were likened to popcorn). In 1997, the ''Popcorn'' area experienced violent rent boycotts.