An Overview

Rivonia is a thriving suburb with a diverse community, and includes a mix of residential properties, offices, shopping centres, and other amenities. It’s well-known for its tree-lined streets, and peaceful atmosphere, as well as vibrant business community.

The once-rural suburb was named after the Rivonia farm, which was subdivided in the 1940s and 1950s to create a residential area. The suburb was also central to the anti-apartheid movement, when in the early 1960s, then-leaders of the African National Congress were found hiding in the Lilliesleaf farm, and subsequently convicted during the Rivonia Trial.

Rivonia also encompassed the farm Edenburg after which the eastern part of Rivonia is still named, and which contains the remnants of its farming history with a number of old style “Transvaal” farmhouses.