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	Kliptown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kliptown, a suburb of the former fl township of Soweto in Gauteng, South Africa, located about 17km 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.
		In June 1955 Kliptown was the home of an unprecedented Congress of the People, organised by the African National Congress, the South African Indian Congress, the South African Congress of Democrats and the Coloured People's Congress.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kliptown (231 words)

	www.safrica.info \| news A makeover for historic Kliptown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		According to the manager of the JDA's Greater Kliptown Development Project, Aubrey Manganyi, the JDA is in the process of appointing consultants to conduct environmental and economic impact studies.
		Other initiatives are the refurbishment of Kliptown railway station, the development of a new taxi rank and trader market with modern facilities, the relocation of people staying in informal settlements, the building of new houses and the servicing and upgrading of remaining informal settlements.
		The anti-apartheid groups which met in Kliptown in 1955 were members of the Congress Alliance, a coalition constituted by the African National Congress, South African Indian Congress, the Coloured People's Organisation and the Congress of Democrats representing mainly white activists.
	www.southafrica.info /news/kliptown.htm (1081 words)

	Kliptown and the Freedom Charter - SouthAfrica.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kliptown is a sprawling collection of settlements around 40km from the Johannesburg city centre, with a thriving informal business area where the people of Soweto do their shopping.
		According to Blue IQ, the purpose of the Kliptown project is to redevelop this traditional apartheid-style buffer zone township between Johannesburg and Soweto into a desirable and prosperous residential and commercial locality.
		The aim is to use Kliptown's rich history, as the meeting ground of the Congress of the People and the birthplace of the Freedom Charter, as a tool to boost tourism and transform the fortunes of the settlement.
	www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/history/kliptown-220605.htm (1508 words)

	:: JDA - Kliptown ::
		Capturing the political and social landscape of Kliptown, the exhibition is temporarily housed at the Kliptown education and training centre.
		Unemployment levels are high in Kliptown, especially within the informal settlements and among women and youth.
		The area of Greater Kliptown is traversed by an important commuter rail line connecting parts of Soweto to central Johannesburg, with the heavily utilised Kliptown Station close to its centre.
	www.jda.org.za /kliptown/projects.stm (904 words)

	R375m makeover for Kliptown - SouthAfrica.info
		Kliptown is a sprawling collection of settlements around 40 kilometres from the city centre, with a thriving informal business area, where the people of Soweto do their shopping.
		One of the oldest urban multiracial settlements in the Johannesburg area, established in 1912, Kliptown has long been neglected, and many of its old buildings are now dilapidated.
		Areas to be upgraded are the Kliptown railway station, a new taxi rank, a market, the re-location of people in informal settlements, and the building of new houses.
	www.southafrica.info /what_happening/conf_expo/world_summit/kliptown.htm (841 words)

	:: KLIPTOWN DEVELOPMENT GAINS MOMENTUM :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kliptown, one of Soweto's historic sites, is set to get its first museum, exhibiting pictures and artefacts celebrating its rich political and social history.
		THE Greater Kliptown Development Project has taken off and is on track to be completed by 2005 - in time for the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Freedom Charter.
		The development is intended to turn Kliptown into a heritage site and a premier tourist destination in the city, whilst improving the quality of life of the local community, turning the area into a thriving residential and commercial node.
	www.joburg.org.za /2003/june/june27_kliptown.stm (816 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news Freedom Charter to be celebrated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Thousands of people are expected to gather in Kliptown in Soweto on Sunday to celebrate the Freedom Charter which was adopted decades ago to pave the way for a democratic and non-racial South Africa.
		They have said Kliptown is extremely undeveloped and the millions of rands the government would use for the celebrations should instead be used to develop infrastructure, provide basic services and proper sanitation there.
		There has also been opposition from the Kliptown Concerned Residents Committee which said earlier this month there was nothing to celebrate because the area remained underdeveloped.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/454540.htm (502 words)

	SABCnews.com - south_africa/general
		That is what veterans and politicians are saying at a special Parlimentary sitting in Kliptown to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the charter's signing.
		The document - the foundation for the country's current constitution - was drafted in the town in 1955 as part of the struggle against apartheid.
		Ntsibande's statement however was contradicted by Kliptown residents who protested outside the celebrations yesterday, saying that the town was suffering from a lack of basic services.
	www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/general/0,2172,107249,00.html (356 words)

	Sans Souci
		Over 125 interviews conducted by field workers during July 2002 in Kliptown confirms that the Sans Souci maintains a powerful place in the memory of many Sowetans and that residents feel that rebuilding the Sans Souci may bring increased opportunities for employment, education, recreation and entertainment.
		The Sans Souci, born and named (in French) “without a care,” in 1948 (it was previously a dancehall and a stable), was host to South Africa's pre-eminent performers, such as Miriam Makeba, Kippie Moketzee, and Abdullah Ibraheim (then known as Dollar Brand).
		The Sans Souci should above all be friendly to the people of Kliptown and infused with their new ideas, energy and patterns in order to honour an old place in a new way.
	thesanssouci.org (249 words)

	Kliptown people march for homes: South Africa: News: News24
		Johannesburg - About 50 residents of Kliptown, Soweto, marched to the local police station on Saturday in a protest over the "slow delivery" of housing, police said.
		Police spokesperson Superintendent Thembi Nkwashu said a representative of Gauteng housing MEC Nomvula Mokonyane received a memorandum from the Kliptown Concerned Residents Association, and the marchers dispersed peacefully about 11:00.
		Sipho Jantjie of the residents association complained of the "slow delivery of housing" in Kliptown.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1687443,00.html (133 words)

	Gauteng Department of Housing
		He said the work they are trying to do is for the project to benefit different areas because there are people still living in squalor conditions, with no water and sanitation.
		Premier Shilowa was speaking to the residence of Kliptown during the handing over of occupation letters to beneficiaries.
		Kliptown located within Soweto has a limited amount of formal housing and densely populated with informal settlements of approximately 6 200 shacks occupied by 35 000 inhabitants.
	www.housing.gpg.gov.za /Kliptown.htm (344 words)

	Business Day - News Worth Knowing
		KLIPTOWN, Soweto’s oldest suburb created in 1903, was once a cosmopolitan area where people of different races and cultures lived in harmony, but it has since suffered neglect and many of its historical buildings are now dilapidated.
		Kliptown residents once owned their properties but in the 1980s their houses were expropriated by the West Rand Administration Board, making them tenants in their own homes.
		The project involves the upgrading of roads into the suburb, the refurbishment of the Kliptown railway station and a link between the station and the square, and the rehabilitation of sewerage systems.
	www.businessday.co.za /articles/national.aspx?ID=BD4A60994 (762 words)

	::JOZI ON TRACK WITH HOUSING:: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		RESIDENTS in Kliptown will benefit from a City of Johannesburg housing project that has set a target to construct 5 700 RDP houses in the "next few years".
		Masondo said it was apt that the event was held in Kliptown, one of the oldest townships in Johannesburg.
		At the end of the function, beneficiaries of the Kliptown innovative technology housing project were given keys to their new houses.
	www.joburg.gov.za /2006/oct/oct3_habitatday.stm (981 words)

	SABCnews.com - sabcnews/specials
		This is the view of Sipho Jantjies, the chairperson of the Kliptown Concerned Residents Committee (KCRC).
		The community-based organisation has said it will boycott Sunday’s Freedom Charter celebrations in Kliptown over what it calls “wretched living conditions” and intends to present President Thabo Mbeki on Monday with a memorandum detailing their grievances.
		However, despite these development initiatives, Jantjies says Kliptown residents are still making use of the “bucket-system.” The community is doing without electricity, housing is inadequate and 7 100 Kliptown families are still awaiting houses, he says.
	www.sabcnews.com /features/freedom_charter/detractors.html (505 words)

	Section Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The historic Sans Souci cinema in Kliptown, for years the focal point of the community, will be re-invented once funding becomes available.
		The project is unusual in that it does not start with the building, but instead, according to the architects, "it develops and gives the 'idea' of [the] cinema new meaning over time, through a number of events and incremental architectural interventions that reconstruct the memory of the Sans Souci and project it into the future".
		He says people of Kliptown never needed to ask directions to a particular street but rather how far their destination was from Sans Souci.
	www.property24.com /property24/news/FullArticle.asp?articleid=3917 (845 words)

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		While all around her the construction of the R436 million (US $68 million) Greater Kliptown Development Project is underway - including the construction of 8,000 homes as well as formal and informal trading areas - locals still lack the most basic amenities.
		The development project is intended to turn Kliptown into a South African heritage site and a premier tourist destination in Johannesburg, while also improving the quality of life of the community by making the area a residential and commercial hub.
		The residents of Kliptown are not the only ones in South Africa who have been openly airing their grievances over the poor delivery of basic services by the local authorities.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=50375 (1345 words)

	ACDP - Press releases
		The choice of Kliptown as the place to hold the 50th anniversary of the ANC’s ‘Freedom Charter’ is unwise and insensitive on the part of the ANC, particularly because Kliptown is an extremely underdeveloped community.
		Many Kliptown residents are still subjected to the humiliating and unhygienic “bucket system” as there is still no proper sanitation in the area, sadly, 11 years after the new democratic order.
		The ACDP supports the position taken by the Kliptown Concerned Residents Committee (KCRC) that “there is nothing to celebrate since their areas remains undeveloped.”
	www.acdp.org.za /press/releases.asp?show=press172.txt (190 words)

	South Africa’s Freedom Charter at 50
		At the time of the Freedom Charter it was committed to serving the people, now it is committed to serving the corporations.” It is a criticism that mirrors a much broader debate about the path of social change and development in South Africa and globally.
		They talked about the deaths—from communicable diseases because of the lack of water, from respiratory disease because people must heat with coal and wood, and from the violence that many argue is the predictable result of a community where unemployment and under- education are the norm.
		Kliptown is not the only community where the ANC’s promises of a “better life for all” have not been fulfilled.
	zmagsite.zmag.org /Sep2005/kavanagh0905.html (2099 words)

	Financial Mail - FACELIFT WILL IMPROVE RESIDENTS' QUALITY OF LIFE
		The transformation of Kliptown, an informal settlement, to a national and international historical site is a daunting challenge.
		Kliptown is the 11th project of Blue IQ, added to the list late last year.
		Kliptown is already a designated national heritage site and a monument will come with the building of the Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication, expected to be completed by 2005, in time to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Freedom Charter.
	free.financialmail.co.za /report/blueiq/nblue.htm (462 words)

	C.O.P. - I Was There (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		They are the dates of the Congress of the People which was held at Kliptown to discuss and finally adopt the historic Freedom Charter which forms the basis of our policy today.
		On those two days we witnessed the climax of months of effort on the part of thousands of Congress men and women throughout the country striving for the liberation of their country from the yoke of apartheid.
		As one approached Kliptown (and I and others had driven 1,000 miles to get there), one could see the streams of other delegates arriving — some in cars, some in buses, others in carts or on foot, many carrying banners and wearing colourful national dresses for a gala occasion.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/campaigns/cop/iwasthere.html (1738 words)

	:: KLIPTOWN YOUTH THEATRE GROUP RECALLS THE STRUGGLE :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		BLUE IQ is a multi-billion rand initiative of the Gauteng provincial government to invest in economic infrastructure development in identified mega-projects in the areas of tourism, technology, transport and high value-added manufacturing.
		The theatre group was started in 2002 and most of the members are from the Soweto Kliptown Youth Group, an organisation that assists disadvantaged youngsters by offering educational support and an introduction to cultural activities like dancing and craftwork.
		"We come from Kliptown, which is a disadvantaged area, but we see ourselves as the Flowers of Kliptown and we are going to blossom as flowers and touch the hearts of everyone," said member Zoleka Mfaxa.
	www.joburg.org.za /2005/june/june28_theatre.stm (718 words)

	R34m claim paid out to Kliptown: South Africa: News: News24
		Pretroia - The government signed over more than R34m on Thursday to residents of Kliptown, south of Johannesburg, in terms of a land restitution claim.
		The town had previously seen the single highest amount paid out to an individual land claimant - R27m, said the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights at a ceremony in Pretoria.
		Kliptown, which celebrated its 100th birthday last year, was formed by coloured, Indian and fl people driven off their land elsewhere in the Johannesburg area under the apartheid government's land segregation policies.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1503522,00.html (195 words)

	ADDRESS BY ACTING PRESIDENT ZUMA AT THE UNVEILING OF THE KLIPTOWN MEMORIAL DESIGN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The people of Kliptown must surely be proud of the special place that this area enjoys in the history of our country, given that the Freedom Charter, adopted by the Congress of the People on 26 June 1955, continues to guide us in all our efforts to transform our society.
		It is only proper that we should associate Tata Sisulu with a project aimed at building a better life, and which will turn Kliptown into an economically vibrant hub and prime national and international monument of the struggle and ideals of the South African people.
		Compatriots, Kliptown indeed has a significant place in our history, for the ten clauses of the Freedom Charter, which were adopted here, constitute the essence of the vision that our struggle sought to achieve.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/zuma/2002/jz0626.htm (1611 words)

	:: JDA - Kliptown ::
		Kliptown is the historic site where the Congress of the People was held on 26 June 1955 during which the Freedom Charter was adopted, a document which remained a cornerstone of the African National Congress (ANC) policy for the next half-century.
		The first phase of the development will be completed in time for the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Charter in 2005.
		The development, which is jointly funded by the Gauteng provincial government and the City of Johannesburg, will turn Kliptown into a heritage site and a premier tourist destination in the city, while improving the quality of life of the local community, and turning the area into a thriving residential and commercial node.
	www.jda.co.za /kliptown/index.stm (360 words)

	:: A MAKEOVER FOR HISTORIC KLIPTOWN :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		THE Gauteng Provincial Government and City Of Johannesburg will jointly give more than R375m towards the renovation of Kliptown, the city's oldest all-race settlement, steeped in political history.
		The metro council is expected to contribute about R30m towards the project over a three year period.
		The money for the project will be channeled through the Johannesburg Development Agency, making Kliptown the first township to benefit from JDA projects.
	www.joburg.org.za /jan_2002/kiptown.stm (1076 words)

	The Story of Aywa & +/- Memories of the Struggle :: Learn French at Alliance Française - South Africa, Botswana, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Mama Africa Theatre Company, created in 2002, is made up of a group of dedicated youngsters from Soweto Kliptown Youth (SKY) and three French theatre professionals, Neusa Thomasi (Director of the Compagnie des Contraires), Eric de Sarria (an actor from the French company Philippe Genty) and Arnaud Rabier (visual artist).
		During this journey of self-discovery she becomes a woman as she learns about her environment and the different facets that make up her world.
		Along the way audiences are introduced to a series of characters that play out their stories with song, dance, humour.
	www.alliance.org.za /article.php3?id_article=396 (421 words)

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