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Tshepisong
Informal Settlement and Township in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tshepisong is both an informal settlement and township, located in Region D of Johannesburg [2] and established in 1998.[3] This area falls under Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. To the south, the housing overlooks the old Durban Roodepoort Deep Mine[4] and to the immediate west is the Mogale City Municipality border and to the east is Soweto.
Tshepisong is approximately 10 km west of Roodepoort and approximately 30 km from Johannesburg in the Gauteng Province of South Africa.[5][6]
The settlement's 6.56 square km area[7] has a total of 6,142 individual property stands.[8] Residents in this densely populated, low cost and informal development[9] are served by a public library[10] a multipurpose centre,[11] three well subscribed primary schools (Harry Gwala, Onkgopotse Tiro and Tshepisong),[12] two high schools (Raymond Mhlaba[13] and Wiseman Cele). There is no local police station and law and order is currently served by the Kagiso police station which falls under the Mogale City Municipality,[14] about 5 km from the settlement.[15]
According to a parliamentary question posed to the then minister of police (Bheki Cele) in 2019, plans have been put in place to construct a police station in Tshepisong in the 2028/2029 financial year.[16]
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Infrastructure and public services delivery
Tshepisong has also been described as a "sprawling shack settlement"[3] and this complex township[17] has witnessed the damaging effects on the social fabric[18] and service delivery tensions[19] regularly affect the residents wellbeing. Crimes are reported to a local resident who runs Tshepisong West Green Door,[20] a shelter for victims of Gender-Based and also serves as a "police station" for locals to report crime to.[21]
The city leaders have issued tenders to upgrade gravel roads.[22] handed over title deeds to residents in 2007[23] and in 2023,[24] and committed themselves to dignified housing.[11] In 2016 / 2017, the R3.9-billion of the cities budget was used for the electrification of informal settlements,[25] which Sicelo Xulu (MD for City Power) claimed would assist with load-shedding prevention.[25] City Power would later implement load reduction in those areas with high levels of electricity consumption and low payments.[26] In 2023, 5,505 stands were reported as registered at the Deeds Office.[8]
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Land claims
The Cremona Cheese Factory had been in Tshepisong since the 1970s.[27] In 2016, the property owner proposed a mixed business development for middle income groups.[28] Ownership of vacant land around this factory has been disputed and measures have been taken to prevent this property from being occupied.[29]
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