Mamelodi

Mamelodi is black township set up by the then apartheid government northeast of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. It was built on the farm Vlakfontein. the name changed in the late 1950s to Mamelodi, the name given to president Paul Kruger by the africans because of his ability to whistle and imitate birds, also meaning Father of Melodies. In the 1960s black citizens where forcefully removed from the suburb of Lady Selbourne in Pretoria to Mamelodi, Ga-Rankuwa and Atteridgeville.