Dobsonville Mall is a

shopping centre A shopping center in American English, shopping centre in English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, spelling differences), shopping complex, shopping arcade, ...

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu language, Zulu and Xhosa language, Xhosa: eGoli ) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa. With 5,538,596 people in the City of Johannesburg alon ...

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

. Located in

Dobsonville Dobsonville is a Township (South Africa), township in greater Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. It lies to the west of Meadowlands, Gauteng, Meadowlands, a part of Diepmeadow, Gauteng, Diepmeadow, and is adjacent to Mofolo North and Zondi, wh ...

, it was the first shopping centre to be built in

Soweto Soweto () is a Township (South Africa), township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for ''South Western T ...

and was seen as an early symbol of economic development in the area."Soweto Mall Nearly Complete", '' The Star'', August 1994, reprinted in

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Shopping centres in Johannesburg Buildings and structures in Soweto Shopping malls established in 1994 1994 establishments in South Africa {{Mall-stub