This community has evolved to develop its own cultural history including unique traditions and a way of life, based on friendliness and hospitality.

Many people have also gathered to fight crime by starting neighborhood night watch groups to assist the police in protecting their homes and streets.

More or less in 1905 the then-owner of a farm close to Pretoria where the township of Eersterust now resides, divided a portion of his property into plots to sell.

The township was developed for Coloureds to stay there, but the plots were mainly bought by Black People (Van der Walt, 1966).

At that time Eersterust was no more than just a squatters settlement: the houses were mainly made of sink and mud and a lot more of those structures were built on the same premises.

At that point in time 5 were made to move Coloureds that were staying somewhere else in Pretoria, such as Lady Selborne, Eastwood, Claremont, Booysens and the so-called Kaapse Lokasie, into Eersterust.

The then-owner that was involved in dividing the farm into plots, his daughter said that her father was an idealist and with the development of the township wanted to create the first resting in Transvaal for descendants of slaves.

Some of the residence said that the Republican forces that came with the British during the three years of War out of Pretoria stopped at Eersterust, rested before they continued their struggle.