Mamelodi
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| Coordinates | 25 ° 43 ′ S , 28 ° 22 ′ E | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
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| metropolis | City of Tshwane | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-GP | ||
| height | 1294 m | ||
| Residents | 334,577 (2011) | ||
| founding | 1953 | ||
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Mamelodi is a South African town east of Pretoria in the metropolitan municipality of Tshwane .
geography
In 2011 Mamelodi had 334,577 inhabitants.
To the west is the district of Eersterus, which was assigned to Coloreds during the apartheid period, to Phomolong to the east.
history
On the initiative of the then government of the South African Union , a planning group for urban development issues in the region around Pretoria was formed in 1953. Their work resulted in site proposals for the construction of three large mass settlements for non-European residents on areas of Vlakfontein , Atteridgeville and Saulsville as well as in Klipfontein . These new residential areas were used to accommodate 2,500 families from urban areas of Pretoria and for resettlement as part of the intended abolition of numerous scattered squatter camps . In the Vlakfontein West planning area , 10,000 small house locations (buildings with four rooms) were identified, and construction began in 1953.
The Mamelodi settlement was built in 1953 on the property of the Vlakfontein farm as a township , whose name the new district originally bore, and was intended exclusively for black residents as part of the apartheid policy. At the end of the 1950s, the district was renamed Mamelodi. The name means mother of melodies .
In the 1960s, the black residents of Pretoria were forced to leave the city and settle in the surrounding townships of Mamelodi, Ga-Rankuwa , Soshanguve and Atteridgeville.
Economic development project
Mamelodi was selected after the end of apartheid to improve the socio-economic development of the local population with a regional development concept led by the UCT Graduate School of Business on the basis of a model promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises.
traffic
Mamelodi is accessed by the M8 and M10 inner-city motorways . A railway line runs on the southern edge in an east-west direction, on which trains of the Metrorail Gauteng Malemodi serve at several stations.
education
A regional campus of the University of Pretoria is located here .
Several organizations and groups are committed to improving the standard of living and education within the township. One of them is Tateni Community Care Services from 1995, which operates ten drop-in centers to support children. In addition, they run a youth development program under the motto “Breaking the Cycle of Poverty”, in which young people are supported during and after their school days.
Sports
The village is home to the Mamelodi Sundowns football club .
Web links
- Mamelodi Trust (UK relief fund). on www.mameloditrust.org.uk (English)
- Meanwhile in Mamelodi (2011) , documentary film about the everyday life of a family in Mamelodi Township
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census , accessed October 3, 2013
- ^ SAIRR : A Survey of Race Relations in South Africa 1953-1954 . Johannesburg 1954. pp. 66, 75
- ↑ ST Maphalla, C. Nieuwenhuizen, R. Roberts: Perceived barriers experienced by township small, micro and medium enterprise entrepreneurs in Mamelodi . (Abstract) University of Johannesburg, 2009. on www.uj.ac.za ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 195 kB)
- ^ University of Pretoria: Campuses . on web.up.ac.za (English)
