Botshabelo
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| Coordinates | 29 ° 15 ′ S , 26 ° 43 ′ E | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
| free State | |||
| metropolis | Mangaung | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-FS | ||
| height | 1423 m | ||
| Residents | 181,712 (2011) | ||
| founding | 1979 | ||
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Special features: as township founded |
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Botshabelo [ botsʰɑˈbelɔ ] ( Sesotho , German: "Refuge") is a city in the South African province of Free State . It is located in the metropolitan municipality of Mangaung . Despite its high population, Botshabelo is only shown on a few maps.
geography
Botshabelo has 181,712 inhabitants (2011 census). The city is located around 50 kilometers east of Bloemfontein south of the national road N8 , which leads to Maseru in Lesotho . The population consists mainly of Basotho and Xhosa .
Botshabelo is located in the mostly flat, tree-poor South African Highveld at around 1400 meters above sea level.
A few kilometers east of Botshabelo is the city of Thaba Nchu .
history
In the course of apartheid , the Kromdraai camp was founded near Thaba Nchu in 1976 as a settlement for blacks. The area came to the then Homeland Bophuthatswana in 1977 , which was intended as a place of residence for Batswana , so that the Basotho and Xhosa living there had to look for a new place to stay. In 1979 the camp was disbanded by the Bophuthatswana police. The then Prime Minister of the Basotho homeland, QwaQwa , about 200 kilometers away , Tsiame Kenneth Mopeli, organized an area on the area of the former Onverwacht farm , west of the area belonging to Bophuthatswana, on which the new township was built. Around 1980 the name Botshabelo became established for the settlement . The township became the second largest of its kind in South Africa after Soweto . Botshabelo was incorporated into QwaQwa on December 3, 1987, against the will of the majority of its residents, which roughly doubled its population. In 1994 QwaQwa was dissolved. In 2000 Botshabelo became part of the Mangaung community.
The slum settlement Onverwacht gained attention at home and abroad in the 1980s because of its extremely scandalous living conditions. This was due to the fact that the residents of some resettlement camps, including here, were not in any area of responsibility of chiefs and homeland governments or the “white” native administration did not feel responsible. As a result, there was no right to the establishment and use of communal land , which would have meant the possibility of simple livelihoods for residents. The disastrous living conditions in this place gave reason to even talk about it in publications during the apartheid system.
In 2011 Botshabelo joined the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality.
Economy and Transport
Botshabelo has been home to black people who work in Bloemfontein since its inception. Since then, around 140 factories have set up shop there, mainly from textile processing. Despite its high population, the city is away from the main traffic routes. The N8 national road and the Bloemfontein – Bethlehem railway line run north in an east-west direction and are only operated as freight traffic as planned.
Attractions
- The Rustfontein Dam and the Rustfontein Nature Reserve are located southwest of the city .
Others
- A Ndebele museum village in Mpumalanga Province and a project to support AIDS sufferers in Midrand in Gauteng Province are also called Botshabelo.
Web links
- Information on Botshabelo ( Memento of May 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Information, particularly photos to Botshabelo (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census , accessed on October 2, 2013
- ↑ a b Information on Botshabelo ( Memento of May 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 7, 2011
- ↑ Information on sahistory.org.za , accessed on February 7, 2011
- ^ Andrea Lang: Separate Development and the Department of Bantu. Administration in South Africa - history and analysis of special administration for blacks . Work from the institute for Africa customer. Vol. 103. Ed. Verbund Stiftung Deutsches Übersee-Institut. Hamburg 1999, p. 89, ISBN 3-928049-58-5
- ↑ Richard Tomlinson, Mark Addleson (ed.): Regional Restructuring under apartheid. Urban and Regional Policies in Contemporary South Africa . Johannesburg 1987