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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.
Numbered routes of South Africa The Western Bypass is a section of the N1 and the Johannesburg Ring Road located in the city of Johannesburg , South Africa . Known at the time as the Concrete Highway , the freeway was initially opened in 1975 as a route to avoid the city centre of Johannesburg and to provide access to the western areas of the ...
The section of the N1 from Cape Town to the split with the N12 national route at Three Sisters, Northern Cape is declared part of the Trans-African Highway Network no. 4 or Cairo-Cape Town Highway, which is the route designated by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa between Cairo and Cape Town. (The route continues as the N12 ...
Soweto Community Television (Soweto TV) [1] is a South African community television channel broadcasting in the biggest township in South Africa, Soweto.The channel is free-to-air in Gauteng Province and it also broadcasts to South African subscribers on the DStv pay TV service on channel 251 and Starsat on channel 488.
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 ...
Soweto is credited as one of the founding places for Kwaito and Kasi rap, which is a style of hip hop specific to South Africa. [ 58 ] [ 59 ] This form of music, which combined many elements of house music , American hip-hop, and traditional African music, became a strong force amongst black South Africans.
To assist the upcoming generation of South African photographers, Kumalo opened a photographic school in Diepkloof Soweto in 2002. [2] The school offered nine-month courses designed to train photographers from disadvantaged backgrounds. [8] He died on 21 October 2012. [9]
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.