Sebokeng

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Sebokeng
Sebokeng (South Africa)
Sebokeng
Sebokeng
Coordinates 26 ° 34 '37 "  S , 27 ° 50' 26"  E Coordinates: 26 ° 34 '37 "  S , 27 ° 50' 26"  E
Basic data
Country South Africa

province

Gauteng
District Sedibeng
ISO 3166-2 ZA-GP
local community Emfuleni
height 1516 m
surface 32.8 km²
Residents 218,515 (2011)
density 6662  Ew. / km²
founding 1965

Sebokeng is a township in Sedibeng district in Gauteng province in South Africa . In 2011 the population was 218,515.

geography

Sebokeng located about 40 kilometers southwest of Johannesburg and is located between Evaton in the north and from the cities of Vereeniging , Vanderbijlpark and Sasolburg industrial area formed, the "Vaal Triangle" ( Vaal Triangle ) in the southeast. Meyerton to the east is around 15 kilometers away. The national road N1 touches the place in the west. The river Vaal flows about 15 kilometers away in the south.

history

Sebokeng, which means "meeting place" in the Sesotho language , was founded as a township by the apartheid government of the time in 1965 to accommodate black Africans who were employed in the nearby industrial area of ​​the "Vaal Triangle". Many simple houses were built for this purpose. In 1984 there were violent clashes between security forces and residents who demonstrated because of high rents and operating costs, organized a school boycott and went on strike. 2,300 demonstrators were arrested during these protests. The demonstrations continued, however, and as a result of the sometimes brutal police action, a total of 600 demonstrators were killed by the end of September 1985. A detailed description of the conditions at that time in the townships of Evaton and Sebokeng was written by the priest Patrick Noonan. In January 1991, 39 people lost their lives during a memorial service for a comrade and member of the ANC when armed attackers suddenly appeared when they threw a hand grenade into the mourning community. In 1994 a stable community was established in Sebokeng, which was divided into 21 zones. In the 2004/2005 financial year, the government started a program to rehabilitate zones 11, 14 and 17.

Demographic data

The population of 222,045 people determined in 2001 was made up as follows: 99.58% black African , 0.04% white , 0.37% colored and 0.01% Asian . The main language at this time was Sesotho with 65.02%, followed by isiZulu with 16.12%, isiXhosa with 11.77%, Setswana with 2.82%, Sepedi with 1.71%, Afrikaans with 0.62%, English with 0.11% and other languages ​​with 2.03%.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census , accessed October 3, 2013.
  2. ^ Vaal triangle ( Memento from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ demonstrations
  4. ↑ They're Burning the Churches ( Memento from October 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ The Sebokeng Massacre
  6. ^ History
  7. ↑ Urban redevelopment
  8. ↑ Demography

Web links

  • Campus - Sebokeng Campus (English)