The township of Orlando in Soweto celebrates 90 years of existence.
Various activities have been planned to celebrate the historical settlement which was established in 1931 and named after Edwin Orlando Leake, a former mayor of Johannesburg.
The photographic exhibition will open on Saturday at Orlando High in Orlando East and will run until September 27. The exhibition was curated by a collective of Orlando East residents, historians and organisations that include City of Johannesburg’s Directorate of Arts, Culture & Heritage, The Wits History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand Historical Papers Research Archive, SA History Archive, National Archives of SA, Museum Africa Archives, Sticky Situations, the James Mpanza Legacy Foundation Trust and the Orlando Pirates FC Supporters Branch.
“It is an exhibition that walks through a timeline of the Soweto neighbourhood from its establishment and architecture in the early 1900s, its early development in the 1930s and the James Sofasonke Mpanza-led squatter movement of the 1940s to the establishment of the model of townships by the apartheid government through the Group Areas Act in the 1950s, and beyond,” Mawela says.
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