Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(S.Afr.) Vrededorp/Pageview, i.e. Soweto District Six, an area from which the occupants were removed compulsorily under the Group Areas Act.

1982		Pace May 158: They used to ‘tune’ it in the olden days around Vrededorp alias Fidas [DSAE].
1986		Star 23 Apr. 19: Verses from the pre-war campflre song, ‘This is the place Jo’burg’ [...] We’ve got some wonderful tramcars, / Wot shakes like boxes of nails. / They charge you a tickey by Fietas / And a fourpence by the end of the rails [DSAE].
1989		Frontline Mar. 28: Vrededorp Vietas to its residents and Pageview to the map-makers was Joburg’s last indiscriminate area, and one of the last in the country to be laid low before the Group Areas Act ran out of steam [DSAE].
1990		J. Naidoo Coolie Location 209: My sister Ruby [...] was then living in Fietas.