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Kliptown es el barrio residencial más antiguo de Soweto, y empezó a construirse por primera vez en 1891, sobre terrenos que formaban parte de la finca Klipspruit. El nombre de la granja deriva del término klipspruit ('corriente rocosas'), que pasan cerca.
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.
Kliptown es el barrio residencial más antiguo de Soweto, y empezó a construirse por primera vez en 1891, sobre terrenos que formaban parte de la finca Klipspruit. El nombre de la granja deriva del término klipspruit ('corriente rocosas'), que pasan cerca.
Kliptown, located 25 km south-west of the Johannesburg city centre and today part of the township of Soweto, is best known in South African history as the site where the Freedom Charter was signed at the 1955 Congress of the People.
30 de jul. de 2014 · THE HISTORY OF KLIPTOWN. Kliptown was established in 1903 and is the oldest suburb in Soweto, Johannesburg’s largest black township. It was one of the first townships, along with Sophiatown and Alexandra, in which blacks could own property.
No obstante este barrio tiene la honra de poseer una historia apabullante y orgullosa. En Kliptown se forjó el Congreso del Pueblo, que daría a luz la Carta de la Libertad, de todos aquellos que se oponían a la barbarie y la humillación de uno de los hechos más vergonzosos de la humanidad, el apartheid.
7 de ago. de 2008 · On June 26, 1955, over 3 000 representatives of resistance organisations made their way through police cordons to gather on a dusty square in Kliptown, Soweto, 40km south of Johannesburg. This was the Congress of the People, who met to draw up the Freedom Charter, an alternative vision to the repressive policies of the apartheid state.
