Mofolo
Mofolo is a suburb in City of Johannesburg, Gauteng. Mofolo is situated nearby to the suburb Dube, as well as near Jabavu.Places of Interest
Highlights include Mandela House and Dobsonville Stadium.
Mandela House
Museum
Photo: Moongateclimber, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Nelson Mandela National Museum, 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. Mandela House is situated 2½ km east of Mofolo.
Dobsonville Stadium
Stadium
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The Dobsonville Stadium, formerly Volkswagen Dobsonville Stadium and also referred to as Dobsie Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Soweto, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Hector Pieterson Museum
Museum
Photo: Babak Fakhamzadeh, CC BY 2.0.
The Hector Pieterson Museum is a museum located in Orlando West, Soweto, South Africa. Located two blocks away from where student protester Hector Pieterson was shot and killed on 16 June 1976, the museum is named in his honour and covers the events of the anti-Apartheid Soweto Uprising and Massacre, where more than 170 protesting school children were killed. Hector Pieterson Museum is situated 2½ km east of Mofolo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Soweto and Dobsonville.
Soweto
Photo: Digr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Soweto is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Soweto is an increasingly popular destination for travellers from around the world, and is home of the Nelson Mandela National Museum.
Dobsonville
Suburb
Dobsonville is a township in greater Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. It lies to the west of Meadowlands, a part of Diepmeadow, and is adjacent to Mofolo North and Zondi, which are suburbs of Soweto on its southern border.
Zola
Suburb
Zola is a section of the Soweto township lying south of Johannesburg in Gauteng, South Africa. A number of well-known public figures, mostly musicians call Zola their home and were born and bred there. Zola is situated 4½ km west of Mofolo.
Mofolo
- Type: Suburb
- Category: locality
- Location: City of Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-26.23944° or 26° 14′ 22″ southLongitude
27.88333° or 27° 53′ eastOpen location code
5G59QV6M+68OpenStreetMap ID
node 262710258OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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