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Diepkloof is a large zone of Soweto township in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It is also sometimes referred to as Diepmeadow, if considered as a single township with the nearby Meadowlands (although there is Orlando in between). Diepkloof was established in 1959 to accommodate people being removed from Alexandra.
In 1954, Parliament passed the Native Resettlement Act, which permitted the government to remove Blacks from suburbs like Sophiatown, Martindale, Newclare and Western Native Township. Between 1956 and 1960, they built 23,695 houses in Meadowlands and Diepkloof to accommodate the evicted persons. By 1960, the removals were more-or-less complete ...
Diepsloot is a northern periphery of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality and is divided into extensions. Diepsloot is made up of fully government-subsidised housing (RDP) (Extensions 4, 5, 6, 9, and 10), brick houses built by landowners (Extensions 2 and 7), partially government- subsidised houses (Extension 3/Tanganani) as well as shacks (the biggest sections being Extensions 1 ...
The government of Johannesburg's metropolitan area evolved over a seven-year period from 1993, when no metropolitan government existed under apartheid, to the establishment in December 2000 of today's Metropolitan Municipality. An "interim phase" commenced with the 1993 Constitution. This saw the establishment at the metropolitan level of the ...
According to the South African National Census of 2001, the population of Region 3 was 178,549 people. [2] Whites accounting for 62.50% of the population, followed by Blacks at 32.35%, Asians and Coloureds at 5.15%. 15.6% of the population was under the age of 15, whilst 8.4% were over the age of 65.
[3]: 32 By 1968, the Natives Resettlement Board had relocated 22,500 black families and 6,500 single persons in both Meadowlands and Diepkloof and would administer both areas as they had not yet been allocated to any white municipality. [3]: xi The forced move away from Sophiatown inspired Strike Vilakazi to compose Meadowlands.
[5] [6] [7] He later worked at the ANC's parliamentary office in Diepkloof and was active in the party's Johannesburg, Diepkloof, and Soweto structures, including as chairperson of the Soweto subregional branch. [2] In the 2004 general election, Kekana was elected to represent the ANC in the Gauteng caucus of the National Assembly. [1]
The Gauteng Provincial Legislature is the legislature of the South African province of Gauteng.It is a unicameral body of 80 members elected every five years. The current legislature, the seventh, was elected on 29 May 2024 and is a hung parliament with no overall majority for any party, with the African National Congress having lost its previous majority, but remaining the largest party with ...