• Orlando is a township in the urban area of Soweto, South Africa. The township was founded in 1931 and named after Edwin Orlando Leake, mayor of Johannesburg...
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  • Orlando Pirates Football Club (often known as "The Buccaneers") is a South African professional football club based in Orlando, Soweto that plays in the...
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    of Orlando sub tenants to the attention of the city council. The city council settled for the acronym SOWETO (South West Townships). The name Soweto was...
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    Orlando Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Soweto, a township in Johannesburg, in Gauteng province in South Africa. It is the home venue for Orlando...
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    The Soweto Derby is a football rivalry between Premier Soccer League's Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates in South Africa. It was first contested on 24...
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  • album 17 Orlando Consort, a British vocal consort Orlando Productions, a French record label Orlando, Soweto, a subdivision of Johannesburg Orlando, Florida...
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    The Soweto uprising, also known as the Soweto riots, was a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa during apartheid...
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    moved to the Methodist Church in Orlando West, Soweto, outside Johannesburg. Unusually for a white minister in Soweto, Storey lived among his congregation...
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  • On 9 July 2022, a mass shooting took place at a tavern in Orlando, Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa. 16 people were killed in the incident. At about 21:00...
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  • TOwnships" or Soweto. It was not just rhetoric, however, as he used his loyal following to create supportive candidates for the Orlando Advisory Board...
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    Onalena Burris via Mpho. They renewed their marriage vows in 2015 in Orlando, Soweto. She underwent hip surgery in 2016. Leah Tutu was a teacher and a nurse...
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    Orlando Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station in Soweto, South Africa. The power station was commissioned at the end of the Second...
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    garment factories at various times. From the 1950s onwards, she lived in Orlando, Soweto, with her mother and her children. Having been drawn into politics...
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    Transvaal) formed in 1889. The Orlando Pirates Football Club was founded in 1937 and was originally based in Orlando, Soweto and Kaizer Chiefs were founded...
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  • screenwriter. Duiker, the eldest of three brothers, was born in Orlando West, Soweto, and raised in Soweto at the height of apartheid by middle-class university-educated...
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  • = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss "Orlando Pirates' 2022-23 Review: End of Season Report Card for the Soweto giants | Goal.com South Africa". www.goal...
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  • Mono, were kidnapped on 29 December 1988 from the Methodist manse in Orlando, Soweto, the home of a Methodist minister, Paul Verryn. Seipei was wrongly...
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  • Pirates Matchday 28 Orlando Pirates v Maritzburg Utd Matchday 29 v Matchday 30 v Quarter-finals 14 August 2021 18:00 Orlando Stadium, Soweto, Johannesburg Attendance:...
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    Diepkloof is a large zone of Soweto township in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It is also sometimes referred to as Diepmeadow, if considered as...
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  • Seth Mazibuko (category People from Soweto)
    born in Orlando, Soweto on 15 June 1960 and was the youngest member of the South African Students' Organisation that planned and led the Soweto uprising...
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    Mandela House (category Buildings and structures in Soweto)
    commonly referred to as Mandela House, is the house on Vilakazi Street, Orlando West, Soweto, South Africa, where Nelson Mandela lived from 1946 to 1962. It is...
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  • Happy Jele (category Orlando Pirates F.C. players)
    defender and captained the Orlando Pirates FC in the South African Premier Division. Mostly regarded as a club legend for the Soweto based giants, Jele holds...
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  • 2020 18:00 Orlando Stadium, Soweto, Johannesburg Attendance: 0 Semi-finals 1st Leg 31 August 2020 15:00 Orlando Stadium, Soweto, Johannesburg Attendance:...
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    Sello Maake Ka-Ncube (category Actors from Soweto)
    Sello Maake kaNcube Born (1960-03-12) 12 March 1960 (age 64) Orlando, Soweto, South Africa Alma mater University of Leeds Occupation(s) Actor, playwright...
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    Mpanza's house is a single-storey brick building on Hlatywayo Street in Orlando, Soweto. Mpanza had worked at a solicitors' office before he was convicted...
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  • idea of the formation of the ANC youth league started in 1943, in Orlando, Soweto at Walter Sisulu's house by Anton Lembede, A.P. Mda, Jordan Ngubane...
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  • Moroka Swallows F.C. (category Soweto)
    based in Soweto, Johannesburg, in the Gauteng province. Founded in 1947, Swallows are one of the original two Soweto clubs, together with Orlando Pirates...
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  • 797-capacity FNB Stadium. The team has a strong local rivalry with Orlando Pirates, a fellow Soweto team that Chiefs founder Kaizer Motaung played for in his early...
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    book at all times. Sobukwe led a march to the local police station at Orlando, Soweto, in order to openly defy the laws. He was joined en route by a few...
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    Hector Pieterson (category Soweto)
    Hector Pieterson Museum was opened near the place he was shot in Orlando West, Soweto, to honour Pieterson and those who died around the country in the...
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