Anchor Comprehensive
Anchor Comprehensive is a school in City of Johannesburg, Gauteng. Anchor Comprehensive is situated nearby to the hostel Lebo’s Soweto Backpackers, as well as near Thabaneng Primary School.- Type: School
- Description: secondary school in South Africa
- Also known as: “Anchor Comprehensive School”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Orlando Amstel Arena and Hector Pieterson Museum.
Orlando Amstel Arena
Stadium
Photo: 2010 World Cup - Shine 2010, CC BY 2.0.
Orlando Stadium, officially known as Orlando Amstel Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Soweto, a township in Johannesburg, in Gauteng province in South Africa. Orlando Amstel Arena is situated 1½ km southeast of Anchor Comprehensive.
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 2 km south of Anchor Comprehensive.
Meadowlands Secondary School
School
Meadowlands Secondary School is a government secondary school in Meadowlands a section of Soweto. Meadowlands Secondary School is situated 2 km west of Anchor Comprehensive.
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. Dobsonville is situated 4½ km west of Anchor Comprehensive.
Claremont
Suburb
Claremont is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, around 9 km west-northwest of City Hall. Under the old municipal borders, it was one of the westernmost suburbs of the city and bordered Roodepoort. Claremont is situated 6 km northeast of Anchor Comprehensive.
Anchor Comprehensive
- Categories: secondary school and education
- Location: City of Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-26.21963° or 26° 13′ 11″ southLongitude
27.91379° or 27° 54′ 50″ eastOpen location code
5G59QWJ7+4GOpenStreetMap ID
node 3889034756OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=schoolWikidata ID
Q97331246
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In Other Languages
“Anchor Comprehensive” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Anchor Comprehensive”
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