Kliptown
Sign in to savethumb|left|upright|A shop in Kliptown in 1979 thumb|A group Emotional Fitness Class, using "Shape of Emotion", with unemployed youth from Kliptown Kliptown is a suburb of the formerly black township of Soweto in Gauteng, South Africa, located about 17 km south-west of Johannesburg. Kliptown is the oldest residential district of Soweto, and was first laid out in 1891 on land which formed part of Klipspruit farm. The farm was named after the klipspruit (rocky stream) that runs nearby. From 1903 the area was home to informal settlements (squatter camps), and the area now contains a mixture o
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- Kliptown
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- Kliptown is one of the most destitute areas of the large Soweto township, South Africa, November 2012. (S. Honorine VOA).jpg
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- Kliptown in November 2012
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- South Africa Gauteng#South Africa
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- South Africa
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- Gauteng
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- City of Johannesburg
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- Main Place
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- Soweto
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- 0.77
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- 7548
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- 2011
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thumb|left|upright|A shop in Kliptown in 1979 thumb|A group Emotional Fitness Class, using "Shape of Emotion", with unemployed youth from Kliptown Kliptown is a suburb of the formerly black township of Soweto in Gauteng, South Africa, located about 17 km south-west of Johannesburg. Kliptown is the oldest residential district of Soweto, and was first laid out in 1891 on land which formed part of Klipspruit farm. The farm was named after the klipspruit (rocky stream) that runs nearby. From 1903 the area was home to informal settlements (squatter camps), and the area now contains a mixture of purpose-built housing and many shacks and other informal homes which form the Chris Hani and Dlamini settlements.
== History == In June, 1955, Kliptown was the home of an unprecedented Congress of the People, organised by the African National Congress, the South African Indian Congress, the South African Congress of Democrats and the Coloured People's Congress. This Congress saw the declaration and adoption of the Freedom Charter, which set out the aims and aspirations of the opponents of apartheid.
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