Orlando is the name of a town in, Soweto, South Africa. The town was founded in 1931 and named for Edwin Orlando Leake, Mayor of Johannesburg from 1925-1926. Nelson Mandela lived there when he was practicing law.
Orlando Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Orlando, South Africa. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 40,000 people
The 1950s in South African soccer were a difficult period for black clubs. The apartheid Government and the local authorities fought to bring order and discipline to a sports world that functioned in partial liberty.
The establishing of sports facilities in the township became part of the white regime's strategy to calm down the entertainment- craved masses.
Orlando Stadium in Soweto became the home of the Johannesburg Bantu Football Association and soon after to the famous and popular Soweto clubs of Orlando Pirates and Moroka Swallows.
The Johannesburg African Football Association had arranged some outstanding fixtures of Orlando soccer teams at Wemmer Grounds.
The stadium has been built to carry out the plan of physical education in the schools.
For almost 40 years, the Orlando grounds were sacred to South African soccer, only to be replaced by the gigantic concrete bowl of FNB Stadiumthe Cathedral of African soccer.
It is at this site where the nation's ritual rebuilding of its joy with Bafana Bafana plays out.
| 
