Atteridgeville, the Glossary
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53 relations: African National Congress, Afrikaans, Amnesty, Apartheid, Bantu peoples of South Africa, Black Sash, City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Coloureds, Dikgang Moseneke, Districts of South Africa, Elias Xitavhudzi, First language, Gauteng, Gwen Ramokgopa, Homeland, Indian South Africans, Jafta Masemola, Kgaogelo Lekgoro, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, Laudium, List of municipalities in South Africa, Lotus Gardens, Lucas Moripe Stadium, Marabastad, Pretoria, Northern Sotho, Paul Mashatile, Post office box, Postal codes in South Africa, Pretoria, Pretoria Sotho, Provinces of South Africa, Saulsville, Sello Maake Ka-Ncube, Seputla Sebogodi, Solly Msimanga, Sotho language, South African Standard Time, SS Mendi, Students' representative council, Sydney Maree, Telephone numbers in South Africa, Thato Saul, Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa), Tsonga language, Tsotsitaal and Camtho, Tswana language, Tutu Puoane, UMkhonto weSizwe, University of Pretoria, White South Africans, ... Expand index (3 more) »
- 1939 establishments in South Africa
- Populated places established in 1939
African National Congress
The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa.
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Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Amnesty
Amnesty is defined as "A pardon extended by the government to a group or class of people, usually for a political offense; the act of a sovereign power officially forgiving certain classes of people who are subject to trial but have not yet been convicted." Though the term general pardon has a similar definition, an amnesty constitutes more than a pardon, in so much as it obliterates all legal remembrance of the offense.
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Apartheid
Apartheid (especially South African English) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s.
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Bantu peoples of South Africa
South African Bantu-speaking peoples represent the majority ethno-racial group of South Africans.
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Black Sash
The Black Sash is a South African human rights organisation.
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City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality
The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (Mmasepala wa Toropokgolo ya Tshwane; Stad Tshwane Metropolitaanse Munisipaliteit; Mmasepala wa Toropokgolo ya Tshwane), also known as the City of Tshwane, is the metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of northern Gauteng in South Africa.
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Coloureds
Coloureds (Kleurlinge) refers to members of multiracial ethnic communities in South Africa who have ancestry from African, European, and Asian people.
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Dikgang Moseneke
Dikgang Ernest Moseneke OLG (born 20 December 1947) is a South African jurist and former Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa.
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Districts of South Africa
The nine provinces of South Africa are divided into 52 districts (sing. district, isifunda; isithili; distrikte; selete; kgaolo; setereke; xifundza; sigodzi; tshiṱiriki; isiyingi), which are either metropolitan or district municipalities.
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Elias Xitavhudzi
Elias Xitavhudzi was a South African serial killer who murdered 16 women in Atteridgeville, South Africa, in the 1950s.
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First language
A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period.
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Gauteng
Gauteng (Sotho-Tswana for 'place of gold'; eGoli or iGoli) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.
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Gwen Ramokgopa
Gwen Malegwale Ramokgopa is a South African politician who was elected the Treasurer-General of the governing African National Congress (ANC) in December 2022.
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Homeland
A homeland is a place where a national or ethnic identity has formed.
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Indian South Africans
Indian South Africans are South Africans who descend from indentured labourers and free migrants who arrived from British India during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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Jafta Masemola
Jafta Kgalabi Masemola OLS (12 December 1931 – 17 April 1990), also known as The Tiger of Azania and Bra Jeff, was a South African anti-apartheid activist, teacher, and founder of the armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC).
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Kgaogelo Lekgoro
Mpetjane Kgaogelo Lekgoro (born 11 October 1957) is a South African politician and diplomat.
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Kgosientsho Ramokgopa
Kgosientsho David "Sputla" Ramokgopa (born 25 January 1975) is a South African politician who was the Minister in the Presidency responsible for Electricity from 2023, and the Minister of Electricity and Energy from 3 July 2024.
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Laudium
Laudium is an Indian township southwest of central Pretoria, in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. Atteridgeville and Laudium are townships in Gauteng.
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List of municipalities in South Africa
This is a list of municipalities of South Africa.
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Lotus Gardens
Lotus Gardens is a small suburb situated next to Atteridgeville in the west of Pretoria. Atteridgeville and Lotus Gardens are suburbs of Pretoria and townships in Gauteng.
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Lucas Moripe Stadium
Lucas "Masterpieces" Moripe Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Atteridgeville, a township of Pretoria, South Africa.
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Marabastad, Pretoria
Marabastad (also called Asiatic Bazaar or Location) is a business area to the west of the city centre of Pretoria, South Africa. Atteridgeville and Marabastad, Pretoria are suburbs of Pretoria.
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Northern Sotho
Sesotho sa Lebowa is a Sotho-Tswana language group spoken in the northeastern provinces of South Africa, most commonly in Mpumalanga, Gauteng and the Limpopo provinces.
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Paul Mashatile
Paulus Shipokosa Mashatile (born 21 October 1961) is a South African politician who is the 9th Deputy President of South Africa.
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Post office box
A post office box (commonly abbreviated as P.O. box, or also known as a postal box) is a uniquely addressable lockable box located on the premises of a post office.
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Postal codes in South Africa
Postal codes were introduced in South Africa on 8 October 1973, with the introduction of automated sorting.
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Pretoria
Pretoria, is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa.
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Pretoria Sotho
Pretoria Taal, or Pretoria Sotho (affectionately called Sepitori/S'pitori by its speakers), is the urban lingua franca of Pretoria and the Tshwane metropolitan area in South Africa.
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Provinces of South Africa
South Africa is divided into nine provinces.
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Saulsville
Saulsville is a township near Atteridgeville in the City of Tshwane in the Gauteng province of South Africa. Atteridgeville and Saulsville are townships in Gauteng.
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Sello Maake Ka-Ncube
Sello Maake kaNcube (born 12 March 1960) is a South African actor.
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Seputla Sebogodi
Septula Steez Sebogodi (born October 31, 1962) is a South African actor and singer.
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Solly Msimanga
Solly Tshepiso Msimanga (born 16 July 1980) is a South African politician serving as the Leader of the Opposition in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since May 2019.
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Sotho language
Sotho Sesotho, also known as Southern Sotho or Sesotho sa Borwa is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho–Tswana ("S.30") group, spoken in Lesotho, and South Africa where it is an official language.
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South African Standard Time
South African Standard Time (SAST) is the time zone used by all of South Africa as well as Eswatini and Lesotho.
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SS Mendi
SS Mendi was a British passenger steamship that was built in 1905 and, as a troopship, sank after collision with great loss of life in 1917.
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Students' representative council
A students' representative council, also known as a students' administrative council, represents student interests in the government of a university, school or other educational institution.
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Sydney Maree
Sydney Maree OIS (born September 9, 1956) is a former middle distance runner who competed at the international level in the 1980s.
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Telephone numbers in South Africa
South Africa switched to a closed numbering system effective 16 January 2007.
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Thato Saul
Thato Matlebyane (born 12 December 1995), professionally known as Thato Saul is a South African rapper and songwriter who rose to prominence subsequent to the release of "Never Ride" by Mashbeatz after the single went viral on a video sharing platform TikTok.
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a court-like restorative justice body assembled in South Africa in 1996 after the end of apartheid.
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Tsonga language
Tsonga or, natively, Xitsonga, as an endonym, is a Bantu language spoken by the Tsonga people of South Africa.
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Tsotsitaal and Camtho
Tsotsitaal is a South African vernacular dialect derived from a variety of mixed languages mainly spoken in the townships of Gauteng province (such as Soweto, Soshanguve, Tembisa), but also in other agglomerations all over South Africa.
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Tswana language
Tswana, also known by its native name Setswana, and previously spelled Sechuana in English, is a Bantu language spoken in and indigenous to Southern Africa by about 8.2 million people.
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Tutu Puoane
Tutu Puoane (31 May 1979, Atteridgeville, Pretoria-) is a South African Jazz singer.
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UMkhonto weSizwe
uMkhonto weSizwe (abbreviated MK; English: Spear of the Nation) was the paramilitary wing of the African National Congress (ANC), founded by Nelson Mandela in the wake of the Sharpeville massacre.
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University of Pretoria
The University of Pretoria (Universiteit van Pretoria, Yunibesithi ya Pretoria) is a multi-campus public research university in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa.
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White South Africans
White South Africans are South Africans of European descent.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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Zulu language
Zulu, or IsiZulu as an endonym, is a Southern Bantu language of the Nguni branch spoken and indigenous to Southern Africa.
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25K
25K (or 25K THE PLUG) is a South African rapper and record producer whose full name is Lehlohonolo Molefe.
See also
1939 establishments in South Africa
- 12 Squadron SAAF
- 15 Squadron SAAF
- 17 Squadron SAAF
- 19 Squadron SAAF
- Atteridgeville
- Drostdy Museum
- Flag of the National Party
- Ossewabrandwag
- Second Jan Smuts government
- South West Africa Command
- St. Elizabeth's Anglican Church
- Union of South Africa King's Medal for Bravery, Silver
- Volksparty
Populated places established in 1939
- Amir, Israel
- Atteridgeville
- Baxter, Minnesota
- Beit HaArava
- Beit Oren
- Beit Yitzhak-Sha'ar Hefer
- Bon Air, Louisville
- Dafna
- Dalia, Israel
- Dan, Israel
- Dombarovsky (rural locality)
- General Santos
- Gesher, Israel
- Gubkin
- Gusinoozyorsk
- HaZor'im
- Hamadia
- Kfar Glikson
- Kfar Netter
- Kfar Warburg
- Kiryat Ono
- Koewarasan
- Kostopil
- Mahanayim
- Malgobek
- Martensville
- Medford Lakes, New Jersey
- Mineiros
- Negba
- Neve Yam
- Palos Verdes Estates, California
- Parkchester, Bronx
- Pio IX
- Pomezia
- Quezon City
- Riverlea, Ohio
- Sde Eliyahu
- Shadmot Dvora
- Sosnogorsk
- Stone Park, Illinois
- Tashtagol
- Tateyama, Chiba
- Val-Saint-Gilles
- Valley Village, Los Angeles
- Waves, North Carolina
- Wynnedale, Indiana
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atteridgeville
Also known as Atteridgeville, Pretoria.
, World War I, Zulu language, 25K.