Kliptown
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| Coordinates | 26 ° 16 '27 " S , 27 ° 53' 8" E | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
| Gauteng | |||
| District | Johannesburg | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-GP | ||
| height | 1579 m | ||
| surface | 1.3 km² | ||
| Residents | 7548 (2011) | ||
| density | 5,896.9 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | 1891 | ||
 Shop in Kliptown (1979)
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Kliptown is a district of Soweto , which in turn is part of Johannesburg in South Africa . In 1955 the People's Congress took place there, at which the Freedom Charter was passed.
geography
The former township of Kliptown is located around 17 kilometers southwest of the center of Johannesburg, east of the river Klipspruit ("rocky stream"). In 2011 the district officially had 7,548 inhabitants. It mainly consists of informal settlements . The infrastructure is mostly bad; unemployment is around 70 percent.
The Dlamini district is to the west , Pimville to the east and Eldorado Park to the south.
history
The district was built from 1891 on the land of the Klipspruit farm , making it the first settlement in what would later become Soweto. From 1903 onwards, informal settlements were built. During the apartheid era , Kliptown became a colored neighborhood . On June 25 and 26, 1955, the Congress of the People (“People's Congress”) took place here in the open air , attended by 3,000 delegates from the anti-apartheid groups African National Congress , South African Indian Congress , Congress of Democrats and South African Colored People's Organization jointly adopted the Freedom Charter (" Freedom Charter "). In it they called for a united, non-racial and democratic South Africa. The field was in the 2000s the name Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication (about: " Walter Sisulu -Platz of devotion") and became a station on the South African Liberation Heritage Route explained (as "street of the South African liberation heritage").
In 2007 the privately organized Kliptown Youth Program was founded, which aims to provide poor young people with vocational training.
traffic
Kliptown is off the M68 (Motorway 68). The Kliptown station northeast of the district is served by regional trains.
Web links
- Kliptown in the past and present at southafrica.info (English)
- Florian Raz: Kliptown: In the shadow of the World Cup. Berner Zeitung on June 16, 2010
- Kliptown Youth Program (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census , accessed on October 3, 2013
- ↑ a b Florian Raz: Kliptown: In the shadow of the World Cup. Berner Zeitung on June 16, 2010, accessed on August 8, 2013
- ↑ Review of the adoption of the Freedom Charter at sahistory.org.za , accessed on August 9, 2013