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Johannesburg’s Soweto - TRAVEL FOCUS: Travelling through South Africa, Annabel Grossman finds that Soweto – a township often ...
What it’s like to visit Soweto, the biggest township in South Africa. It’s a striking and strange sight — three men, standing still against a fence, for no apparent reason.
Children from Soweto stand at the Hector Pieterson Memorial in Soweto, South Africa, June 16, 2013. The image of Pieterson became emblematic of the violence in which hundreds of students were killed.
2005-09-04 04:00:00 PDT Soweto, South Africa-- The woman in the doorway had a wide face and wider smile, a long, African- style skirt and a blue fleece sweatshirt. Before I could drop my overnight ...
The move marks a pivotal moment in the provincial government’s broader strategy to improve access to essential public ...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — For more than half a century, Soweto has been this country’s best-known black township, but strangely little has been known about it. This, perhaps, is not ...
SOWETO, South Africa — This ramshackle black township is (( not much to look at, but it has an epic story to tell. It was in this crucible of change that today’s democratic South Africa was ...
JOHANNESBURG – South African youths recently swept through an intersection in the heart of Soweto township, breaking into immigrant-owned shops and grabbing whatever they could — soda, a loaf ...
His headquarters in South Africa’s largest township shall be up and running by February 2019, located near the Soweto Theatre. “I’ve surrounded myself with a team of ladies. I realize women ...
Playwright, director and actor John Ledwaba gave up theater during South Africa's turbulent 1980s and left his Soweto home to train to be an anti-apartheid guerrilla. But he soon stopped trainin ...
JOHANNESBURG — A mass shooting at a tavern in Johannesburg's Soweto township has killed 15 people and left others in critical condition, according to police.