Mamelodi
Sign in to saveMamelodi is a township northeast of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. A part of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, it was set up by the then apartheid government in 1953.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Mamelodi
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Mamelodi.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Mamelodi
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- South Africa Gauteng#South Africa#Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- South Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Gauteng
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- City of Tshwane
- Settlement.subdivision_type4
- Main Place
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 1945
- Settlement.leader_title
- Councillor
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 45.19
- Settlement.population_total
- 1,500,000
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2024
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- South African township
- Country
- South Africa
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Mamelodi.JPG
- Dialing code
- 012
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- Mamelodi
- inception
- 1945-01-01
- postal code
- 0101
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Mamelodi is a township northeast of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. A part of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, it was set up by the then apartheid government in 1953.
==Etymology== "Mamelodi" is the name derived from the Sepedi word with the prefix being "ma" meaning mother, and the suffix "melodi" meaning melodies. Its meaning can be translated to mean Mother of Whistles.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mamelodi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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