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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 ...
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.
The M70 road is a short metropolitan route in the City of Johannesburg, South Africa. [1] [2] It connects Booysens (south of Johannesburg CBD) with Dobsonville via Diepkloof, Orlando and Meadowlands. For much of its route, it is known as the Soweto Highway. [3]
Diepkloof Rock Shelter is a rock shelter in Western Cape, South Africa in which has been found some of the earliest evidence of the human use of symbols, in the form of patterns engraved upon ostrich eggshell water containers. These date around 60,000 years ago.
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 ...
The South African government announced on 28 March 2024 [18] that e-tolls in Gauteng would officially be shut down on 11 April 2024 at midnight. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] As a result of the e-toll discontinuation, this section of the N1 (which includes the Johannesburg Western Bypass , part of the Ben Schoeman Freeway and part of the Pretoria Eastern ...
Moroka Swallows Football Club (often referred to as Swallows or The Birds) is a South African professional football club based in Soweto, Johannesburg, in the Gauteng province. Founded in 1947, Swallows are one of the original two Soweto clubs, together with Orlando Pirates , thus contest what is known as the Original Soweto Derby.