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Diepsloot Township, Northern Johannesburg, Gauteng.
Diepsloot is a township in the north of Johannesburg, South Africa. Is located in Region A in the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, and it is densely populated settlement made up of formal and informal settlements. The formal township Diepsloot West Extension 1, 2,3,5,6, 7 and 9 compromise of about 7139 households. The informal part which is dotted around Extension 3, 5, 6, and the Reception area with a population of about 15 900 families. The official population figures at 150 000, but these are the 2001 Census.
Diepsloot is best described as a developmental township. In the past years the southern part of the City of Johannesburg was prioritized by the executive and now the attention has been shifted to the northern part of the City of which Alexandra, Ivory Park and Diepsloot are now the centre. Diepsloot is earmarked for massive development same as the one in Cosmo City.
Diepsloot is indeed a vibrant community which has all SADAC nationalities where everyone lives in peace.
With this site, our aim is to keep the residents and the world abreast with latest developments in and about Diepsloot and projecting all aspects that makes our township to be a vibrant place in South Africa, Africa and the world!
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