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The Soweto Wine Festival was started in 2004. The three-night festival is hosted at the University of Johannesburg 's Soweto Campus on Chris Hani Road in the first weekend of September. Organised by the Cape Wine Academy, the festival attracts over 6000 wine enthusiasts, over 100 of South Africa's finest wineries and well over 900 fine wines.
This includes the Soweto uprising where 12-year-old Hector Pieterson was killed. The Hector Pieterson Memorial Museum was established in Orlando West to commemorate those events. [ 2 ] In the surroundings of the museum is the house where Nelson Mandela lived for several years while practicing law ; the house now hosts the Mandela Family Museum .
The Klip River (or in Afrikaans: Kliprivier, lit. 'Stone river') is the main river draining the portion of Johannesburg south of the Witwatersrand, and its basin includes the Johannesburg CBD and Soweto. [1] The mouth of the river is at Vereeniging where it empties into the Vaal River, [2] which is a tributary to the Orange River.
Soweto is an administrative ward in Moshi District of Kilimanjaro Region in Tanzania. The ward covers an area of 2.8 km 2 (1.1 sq mi), [1] and has an average elevation of 828 m (2,717 ft). [2] According to the 2012 census, the ward has a total population of 14,946. [3]
Dobsonville is a township in greater Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. It lies to the west of Meadowlands , a part of Diepmeadow , and is adjacent to Mofolo North and Zondi, which are suburbs of Soweto on its southern border.
Walter Sisulu Square, formally known as the Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication, is located in the heart of Kliptown in Soweto, South Africa. [1]This location was the site where, on 26 June 1955, the Congress of the People, met to draw up the Freedom Charter, an alternative vision to the repressive policies of the apartheid state.
Map of the Shenandoah Valley The Shenandoah Valley in autumn A poultry farm with the Blue Ridge Mountains in the background A farm in the fertile Shenandoah Valley. The Shenandoah Valley (/ ˌ ʃ ɛ n ə n ˈ d oʊ ə /) is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States.
The church is located in the middle of Soweto, in Rockville, in the neighbourhood of Moroka; [2] it was built in 1964, replacing Moroka's former parish church. While the A-shaped exterior of the building is quite ordinary in design, its main feature is the vast interior, that can accommodate as many as 5000-7000 people.