Soweto is a township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng,South Africa,bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for South Western Townships. Formerly a separate municipality,it is now incorporated in the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality,Suburbs of Johannesburg.
Johannesburg,informally known as Jozi,Joburg,or "The City of Gold",is the largest city in South Africa,classified as a megacity,and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demographia,the Johannesburg-Pretoria urban area is the 26th-largest in the world,with 14,167,000 inhabitants. It is the provincial capital and largest city of Gauteng,which is the wealthiest province in South Africa. Johannesburg is the seat of the Constitutional Court,the highest court in South Africa. Most of the major South African companies and banks have their head offices in Johannesburg. The city is located in the mineral-rich Witwatersrand range of hills and is the centre of large-scale gold and diamond trade. It was one of the host cities of the official tournament of the 2010 FIFA World Cup –and it hosted the final.
Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi is a South African politician. He was Minister of Safety and Security from 1994 to 1999 and Minister of Provincial and Local Government from 1999 to 2008.
The Mayor of Johannesburg is the chief executive of the City Council and the highest elected position in the city of Johannesburg,South Africa.
The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality is a metropolitan municipality that manages the local governance of Johannesburg,South Africa. It is divided into several branches and departments in order to expedite services for the city. Zulu is the most spoken language at 23.4% followed by English at 20.1%.
Teboho "Tsietsi" MacDonald Mashinini in Jabavu,Soweto,South Africa,died summer,1990 in Conakry,Guinea),and buried Avalon Cemetery,was the main student leader of the Soweto Uprising that began in Soweto and spread across South Africa in June,1976.
Mpho Franklyn Parks Tau is a South African politician who served as the mayor of the city of Johannesburg,South Africa from 2011 to 2016. He is a member of the African National Congress,and was the second democratically elected mayor,after Amos Masondo,of the Unified City of Johannesburg. He lost the mayoralty to the DA's Herman Mashaba in a historic defeat on the 22 of August 2016. He was appointed Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional affairs on 29 May 2019.
Dr. Nthato Harrison Motlana was a prominent South African businessman,physician and anti-apartheid activist.
Paul Verryn is an ordained minister of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa. He has been involved in a refugee crisis and has served as bishop in the Central District of the Methodist Church,and was suspended in 2010 on the grounds that he had exceeded his authority.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Johannesburg,in the Gauteng province of South Africa.
Naledi High School is a government secondary school at 892 Nape Street in Soweto. The school took an important role at the start of the Soweto Uprising in 1976.
Lael Bethlehem is an expert in urban development. She was director of economic development at the City of Johannesburg from 2002 to 2005 and chief executive of the Johannesburg Development Agency from 2005 to 2010. Prior to those roles,she also served as Chief Director of Forestry at the South African National Department of Water Affairs and Forestry,where she led South Africa’s forestry programme and represented the country in international forestry negotiations. Today,Bethlehem is an investment executive at Hosken Consolidated Investments.
M. K. Gandhi is a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Gandhi Square,Johannesburg,which depicts the Indian independence campaigner and nonviolent pacifist as a young man.
Herman Samtseu Philip Mashaba is a South African politician,entrepreneur and the current president of ActionSA,a party he launched on 29 August 2020. He served as the Mayor of Johannesburg from 2016 to 2019. He is the founder of the hair product company Black Like Me. He is famous in South Africa for his background:he grew up struggling against poverty and the apartheid government to open his own hair business,which became the biggest hair brand in South Africa,making him a millionaire. He publicly backed Mmusi Maimane in the Democratic Alliance leadership race. He wrote the autobiography Black Like You and recently he wrote his new memoir "The accidental mayor". Mashaba is a libertarian and "capitalist crusader" whose highest value is "individual freedom."
Joburg Theatre Complex,previously known as the Johannesburg Civic Theatre,is a group of four theatres situated in Braamfontein,Johannesburg,South Africa. It was built in 1962,refurnished in the late 1980s and reopened in the early 1990s before it was re-branded in 2009. It's a venue to stage both Broadway musicals and home grown productions. It is one of the few theatres open in Johannesburg for independent productions.
Maximum Security Prison is an inactive prison at Robben Island in Table Bay,6.9 kilometers (4.3 mi) west of the coast of Bloubergstrand,Cape Town,South Africa. It is prominent because Nobel Laureate and former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela was imprisoned there for 18 of the 27 years he served behind bars before the fall of apartheid. After that,three former inmates of this prison Nelson Mandela,Kgalema Motlanthe,and Jacob Zuma have gone on to become President of South Africa.
Moloantoa Geoffrey Makhubo was a South African politician who served as the Mayor of Johannesburg from December 2019 until his death from COVID-19 in July 2021. He was a member of the African National Congress and the party's regional chair. During the administration of Parks Tau,he served as the MMC for Finance.
Jolidee Matongo was a South African politician who served as the mayor of Johannesburg from 10 August 2021 until his death on 18 September 2021. Prior to his election as mayor,he served as the member of the mayoral committee (MMC) for finance under his predecessor,Geoff Makhubo,who died from COVID-19 complications. Matongo was a member of the African National Congress.
Ntombi Valencia Khumalo is a South African politician and a member of the National Assembly of South Africa since 2021. She is a member of the Democratic Alliance.
Mpho Phalatse is a South African medical doctor and politician serving as the Executive Mayor of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. A member of the Democratic Alliance,she was elected to the position on 22 November 2021,becoming the first woman to serve as mayor of the metropolitan municipality,which was established in 2000. She is the first black woman to serve as mayor of the city of Johannesburg and the second female mayor of the city after Jessie McPherson,who served from 1945 to 1946.
