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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.
It included most of Soweto. Soweto is a composite name, standing for South-Western Townships. So even this eastern region of it lay not to the south of central Johannesburg, but south of Florida. Its northern boundary was shared with Region 4 (Florida). The region was abolished with a reorganisation of regions in 2006. [1]
From the south, the Western Bypass begins at the Diepkloof Interchange in Soweto, where it splits from the N12 freeway and ends at the Buccleuch Interchange, where it merges with the N3 Eastern Bypass, M1 South and N1 Ben Schoeman freeways. The Western Bypass is the longest section of the Johannesburg Ring Road.
M68 (Diepkloof – M79 – M70 (Diepkloof) Diepkloof: Soweto: Immink Dr: M84: North/South: M32 (Cresslawn) – M90 – M89 – R25 – M88 (Norkem Park) Cresslawn, Kempton Park CBD, Van Riebeeck Park, Houtkapper Park, Norkem Park: Kempton Park: Kelvin Dr, Besembos Ave, Panorama Ave, Soutpansberg Dr, Mooirivier Dr: M85: North/South
The section of the N1 from the R553 Golden Highway off-ramp in-between the Misgund and Diepkloof interchanges in Soweto to the Proefplaas Interchange with the N4 in Pretoria East was effectively declared an e-toll highway (with open road tolling) from 3 December 2013 onwards. [17]
It teaches years 8 to 12 in Diepkloof, Soweto. In 2000 Lucas Radebe who had become the captain of the Leeds United football club returned to make a gift of computers. Radabe had left the school from year eight to go to a quieter neighbourhood. [2] Today it has under 600 pupils who are taught by approximately twenty educators.
"Soweto" is the title of the opening track of the album Joined at the Hip, by Bob James and Kirk Whalum. Brazilian singer-songwriter Djavan, in his 1987 album Não É Azul, mas É Mar, recorded a song called Soweto. [77] Also this song inspired the naming of Brazilian pagode group Soweto.
The township is one of the oldest "Coloured" townships and one of multiple locations that make up greater Soweto. However, this is difficult to discern from historical works, which, if they mention Noordgesig at all, only name it, and predominantly focus on the establishment of Orlando in the mid-1930s, and then later in the 1950s, the construction of Meadowlands and Diepkloof, or the uprising ...