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Orange Farm, Soweto — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Orange Farm is the southernmost township of the City of Johannesburg, about 45 km from the city in Gauteng, South Africa.
About Orange Farm
Where to stay in Orange Farm
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Orange Farm is a residential township, not a hotel quarter. Lodging in Orange Farm barely exists. It sits about 45 km from central Johannesburg, so most visitors base themselves nearer the city and travel south to it, treating the township as a place to see rather than sleep. Soweto lies closer to the centre and holds far more rooms.
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About Orange Farm
What are the main landmarks in Orange Farm?
Orange Farm has no grand monuments. What defines it is the township itself, one of the youngest in South Africa, spread across the southern edge of the City of Johannesburg. Its name is the marker.
The orchards that gave Orange Farm its Dutch-rooted name grew oranges in groves rather than on any single farm, a small misnomer that has stuck to the place.
What is the history of Orange Farm?
Orange Farm is young. Its first settlers were laid-off farm workers, who arrived in 1988 and built the township from bare ground on the southern fringe of Johannesburg. That start set its shape.
Early support came slowly, most of it from people who had been tenants in the larger township of Soweto and moved south to Orange Farm for room of their own.
Where is Orange Farm?
Orange Farm lies about 45 km south of central Johannesburg, the southernmost township of the metropolitan municipality, out on the Gauteng plain.
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Updated July 2026