Orlando (South Africa)
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| Coordinates | 26 ° 13 '20 " S , 27 ° 54' 42" E | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
| Gauteng | |||
| District | Johannesburg | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-GP | ||
| height | 1649 m | ||
| surface | 10 km² | ||
| Residents | 108,813 (2011) | ||
| density | 10,870.4 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | 1932 | ||
 Street scene in Orlando West
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Orlando is a district of Soweto , which in turn is part of the metropolitan municipality City of Johannesburg in South Africa . It consists of Orlando East and Orlando West .
geography
The Orlando township settlement is located around twelve kilometers southwest of central Johannesburg. In 2011, the district officially had 108,813 residents, 68,210 in Orlando East and 40,603 in Orlando West. It belongs to Region D of the City of Johannesburg, which includes all of Soweto.
To the west lies the districts of Meadowlands East and Dube , north-east Noordgesig , east Diepkloof and south Klipspruit . The Klipspruit River feeds the Orlando Dam, south of Orlando East .
history
The district was founded in 1931 or 1932 as a settlement for blacks under the Native Urban Areas Act and named after Edwin Orlando Leake - Leaky according to other sources - who was Mayor of Johannesburg from 1925 to 1926 . Most of the first generation residents came from the Prospect district of Johannesburg . Orlando is the oldest township in Soweto, which was formed in 1963 from several township settlements.
James "Sofasonke" Mpanza (1889-1970), who lived in Orlando East and had served a prison sentence for murder, organized from 1944 against the will of the city administration the settlement of tens of thousands of landless people in Sofasonke Township , of which he was the unofficial mayor. He is considered the "father of Soweto"; his little house on Hlatywayo Street is now a Provincial Heritage Site of the Gauteng Province . Mpanza's Sofasonke Party, founded in 1935, still exists today.
Ernest Oppenheimer visited the Orlando settlement in 1950 . Of the unacceptable living conditions of the residents shocked, he negotiated an agreement with the city administration, in which result Oppenheimer a loan in the amount of six million Rand asked for house construction available and the city undertook to repay within 30 years. After all, 24,000 house units were built on this basis in five years.
In the Orlando Donaldson Community Hall on June 13, 1976 around 500 students met to discuss protest measures against the introduction of Afrikaans as the language of instruction. The Soweto uprising began three days later in Orlando West . The Hector Pieterson Museum deals with the events, the Hector Pieterson Memorial also commemorates them. The Mandela House , where Nelson Mandela last lived in 1990, is on Vilakazi Street in the south of Orlando West . The Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu also lived temporarily in Orlando West, on Bacela Street not far from Vilakazi Street .
From 1935 to 1998, the Orlando Power Station coal-fired power station operated on the Orlando Dam. The two cooling towers remained standing, were connected at the highest possible height with a narrow suspension bridge and have since been used for various extreme sports such as bungee jumping .
In the 2000s and 2010s, many larger houses were built in Orlando, and the proportion of original red brick single-story houses decreased.
traffic
Orlando is served by the M10 (Motorway 10), M70 and M79 roads. The Orlando stations between Orlando East and West and Mlamlankunzi in the north of Orlando East are served by trains on the Johannesburg – Vereeniging and Johannesburg – Oberholzer lines of the Gauteng Metrorail , while the Mzimhlope , Phomolong and Phefeni stations in Orlando West are served by Metrorail trains on the Johannesburg line –Naledi.
Sports
The Orlando Pirates won the South African soccer championship several times and in 1995 the CAF Champions League . They play their home games at the 40,000 seat Orlando Stadium , which is between Orlando East and Orlando West.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Orlando East 2011 Census , accessed July 9, 2018
- ↑ Orlando West 2011 Census , accessed July 9, 2018
- ↑ a b A history of Soweto. sahistory.org.za, accessed July 14, 2018
- ↑ James Sofasonke Mpanza and Johannesburg's squatter movememt 1938 to 1947. sahistory.org.za (English), accessed on July 9, 2018
- ↑ History of Soweto.co.za (English), accessed on July 9, 2018
- ↑ Heritage plaques mark out Joburg's rich history. ( Memento from July 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) jda.org.za from September 17, 2014 (English)
- ↑ James Sofasonke Mpanza at sahistory.org.za (English), accessed on July 9, 2018
- ^ A history of Soweto . on www.sahistory.org.za (English)
- ^ City of Johannesburg: The making of Soweto . at www.joburg.org.za ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ali Mphaki: Orlando is moving on up.iol.co.za of October 16, 2012, accessed July 27, 2018