| 单词 | Soweto |
| 例句 | The whispers were fanciful and improbable: the youth of Soweto had overthrown the military and the soldiers had dropped their guns and fled. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The following morning we flew by helicopter to the First National Bank Stadium in Soweto. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried, along with a couple friends from Soweto, to “integrate” with a group of whites who looked as though they were from Pretoria, but the atmosphere became so tense that we abandoned the effort. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I noticed that an unusual number of blacks were present, mostly tennis players from Soweto and Pretoria. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I hung out with them and got along with them, but most of them took minibuses to school from way out in the townships, from Soweto, from Tembisa, from Alexandra. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The train ride to Soweto was a living nightmare. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z As the violence in Soweto intensified, my wife permitted a group of young men to act as her bodyguards as she moved around the township. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever we went to Soweto, my grandmother refused to let me outside. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The minority of blacks who lived in Dube, a posh section of the otherwise squalid Soweto also known as Beverly Hills, were a well-to-do elite. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In Soweto the police were an occupying army. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But only black people were permitted in Soweto. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Some churches in Soweto and Pretoria sang freedom songs as part of their liturgy, in open defiance of the authorities. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The plan was for Walter, Kathrada, and Duma Nokwe to meet me at a secret rendezvous in Soweto and bring me my credentials for the trip. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Working for the family in Soweto, my mom had no more freedom than she’d had in Transkei, so she ran away. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He’d put on his best suit and stroll through the streets of Soweto on random afternoons, making everybody laugh and charming all the women he’d meet. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In Soweto Zulu migrant workers were reported to have formed vigilantes groups and, with police license, hacked, stabbed and clubbed.students to death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Hector was from Diepkloof, which was the nice, well-off part of Soweto. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The story of Soweto is the story of the driveways. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z One student in the back row shouted, “There can be no school while our brothers and sisters are being murdered in Soweto!” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother took me and Andrew, and we went out to stay with my grandmother in Soweto for a while. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z We lived in town, but I would spend weeks at a tinie with my grandmother in Soweto, often during the holidays. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z At a mass rally at a stadium in Soweto, hundreds of dignitaries from foreign governments gathered to pay their respects to the man who kept the ANC alive during its years of exile. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It took us an hour to get to white church, another forty-five minutes to get to mixed church, and another forty-five minutes to drive out to Soweto for black church. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z One night our crew got invited to dance in Soweto against another crew. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z They both stayed in Soweto, were both raised and cared for by their parents. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The night before the stay-at-home, I was scheduled to meet the Johannesburg leadership of the ANC at a safe house in Soweto. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Though banned, Winnie picked up where she left off, and the authorities were dismayed about her popularity with the young radicals of Soweto. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Growing up in Soweto, our dream was to put another room on our house. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z When my mom started working, she still lived with my grandmother in Soweto, the township where the government had relocated my family decades before. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z As proud as I am to be part of the Soweto community, I have been greatly disturbed by the statistics of crime that I read in the newspapers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in Soweto, my mom enrolled in the secretarial course that allowed her to grab hold of the bottom rung of the white-collar world. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “The struggle in Soweto is our struggle too,” some students clamored. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In Soweto, because there was no leaving the ghetto, the dream was to transform the ghetto. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In Soweto you were always hearing about men getting doused with pots of boiling water—often a woman’s only recourse. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Toward the end of Arthur Ashe’s first week in South Africa, a story appeared in the World that he would be conducting a tennis clinic in Soweto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z On June 16, 1976, fifteen thousand schoolchildren gathered in Soweto to protest the government’s ruling that half of all classes in secondary schools must be taught in Afrikaans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In Soweto, we lived in a black area, and nobody looked like me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The choice of companion was curious: his name was Nkadimeng and he was a member of one of Soweto’s fiercest gangs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the wake of the Soweto uprising, the authorities had decided that the island would become the exclusive home of South Africa’s “security prisoners.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In Soweto I was the only white kid in the black township. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It was a grand place by Soweto standards, but it was a house that held no meaning or memories for me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Soweto was seen as the snobbish township and Alexandra was seen as the gritty and dirty township. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I saw it in the streets of Soweto, on TV, in movies. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Those households with residential permits qualifying them to be in Johannesburg were to be relocated in Soweto and pans of Tembisa, a black township under construction outside Johannesburg. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z So, when I left for the train station, I was glad I had made the nightmarish trip to Soweto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In Soweto, even if she was banned, there were friends and family nearby. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For the million people who lived in Soweto, there were no stores, no bars, no restaurants. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Students began organizing into groups to plot strategy for a peaceful rally in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Soweto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z At least when she was home in Soweto, I could picture her cooking in the kitchen or reading in the lounge, I could imagine her waking up in the house I knew so well. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Along with tens of thousands of other black people, my grandparents were forcibly relocated to Soweto, to a neighborhood called the Meadowlands. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In the school bus from Tembisa, reading the gruesome accounts of what took place in Soweto in the late afternoon edition of the World, I felt hate and anger well up inside me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z So when the other kids in Soweto called me “white,” even though I was light brown, I just thought they had their colors mixed up, like they hadn’t learned them properly. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Harlem, as my wife said, was the Soweto of America. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z President Carter came into office in 1976, just a few months after the violent student protests in Soweto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Soweto was beautiful because, after democracy, you watched Soweto grow. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It was flat, not many trees, the same dusty red-clay dirt and grass as Soweto but with proper houses and paved roads and a sense of suburbia to it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z As in Soweto, most of them were black. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, my return to Soweto fills my heart with joy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The first thing the principal said was, “I guess you’ve all heard about the tragedy that took place in Soweto yesterday.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The following day I went up to Harlem, an area that had assumed legendary proportions in my mind since the 1950s when I watched young men in Soweto emulate the fashions of Harlem dandies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The first spontaneous explosion took place in Soweto on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 16, 1976, where about ten thousand students marched through the dirt streets of Soweto protesting the Afrikaans decree. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We urged the government to stop the killings in Soweto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Soweto was a melting pot: families from different tribes and homelands. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z To avoid police roadblocks, I entered Soweto through Kliptown, which was normally not patrolled. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But it is only a little exaggeration to claim that everywhere that liberty is cherished—Britain to Bangladesh, Sweden to Soweto—people are children of the Haudenosaunee and their neighbors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The stranger to Soweto shook his head in disbelief. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Orlando West was a dusty, spartan area of boxy municipal houses that would later become part of Greater Soweto, Soweto being an acronym for South-Western Townships. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In Soweto, religion filled the void left by absent men. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Top Star had a 360-degree view of the city, the suburbs, Soweto. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I meet the Soweto Dance Theatre and tell them about this dance form called stepping that we do in the U.S. The founder of Step Afrika! on the crucial steps to bringing his dream to life 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z But as a younger man, the son of a royal family was a political celebrity in Soweto, and dressed the part. South Africa's Soweto gets its fashion week 2012-05-24T15:07:18Z Her collection for the Soweto Fashion Show includes sleeveless blouses made from cloth her local supermarkets sells for rags. South Africa's Soweto gets its fashion week 2012-05-24T15:07:18Z Apart from being a wonderful song – joyous, energetic and liberating – Soweto was three decades ahead of its time. McLaren's Soweto 2010-04-26T13:06:00Z I was born in Zambia at the height of the Soweto uprisings to a South African father and a Zimbabwean mother. I received a phone threat and knew writers were not as free as I'd thought 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z The township on Johannesburg's southwestern edge was the natural place for a show for new designers, said 23-year-old entrepreneur and Soweto Fashion Week organizer Stephen Manzini. South Africa's Soweto gets its fashion week 2012-05-24T15:07:18Z Though I’m sure there is much to see and do in central Johannesburg, I decided to spend it in Soweto. Frugal Traveler: In Soweto, History From Those Who Live It 2014-02-19T19:58:06Z Lira, who followed, started with more conventional western pop/R&B before switching to a pained and original Soweto Blues, co-written by Masekela, who closed this intriguing show. Hugh Masekela: Celebrate Mama Afrika ? review 2011-07-12T18:30:00Z The musical journey continues to Johannesburg, South Africa, where a young black trumpet player in the slum of Soweto is juxtaposed with a white woman violinist living in a gated house. Gilberto Gil takes roadtrip to find musical origins in "Viramundo" 2013-04-22T10:06:27Z The Ring at the Hackney Empire, with a live score from Soweto Kinch and his sextet, was magnificent; a classic addition to the list of great boxing movies and a night of superb jazz. Trailer trash 2012-07-28T23:06:07Z She recalled seeing a musical at age 5 or 6, and coming out of the theater and seeing smoke on the horizon, which turned out to be the Soweto uprising of 1976. With ‘Les Blancs,’ Yael Farber Resurrects a Rebuke of Colonialism 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z The public school is just around the corner from his home in Soweto, the township where he was born and raised. Beloved S.African musician, 60, back at school 2012-02-16T14:19:08Z Mabuse is a local hero in Soweto, known as a cauldron of resistance to apartheid. Beloved S.African musician, 60, back at school 2012-02-16T14:19:08Z The respondents in Soweto, an urban township in South Africa with constrained resources, didn't focus much on health system programs. Malnutrition in South Africa: How one community wants resources to be spent 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Before apartheid ended when he was almost 6, young Trevor was kept mostly indoors, often staying in Soweto with his maternal grandmother, who told him, “I’m afraid they will steal you.” How Trevor Noah went from biracial youth in S. Africa to leading light on U.S. TV 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z It will be his first album for the US label Sub Pop, more commonly associated with US indie rock than with Soweto MCs. How Kwaito became a global force 2011-08-11T21:30:02Z The first time we played Soweto, people just stood there at first, like, 'What's going on?' BLK JKS: playing rock in a hard place 2010-06-03T21:26:00Z It means that the only non-black faces at their Soweto shows have been the band's white friends. BLK JKS: playing rock in a hard place 2010-06-03T21:26:00Z The concert in South Africa's biggest black township Soweto will be on June 10, a day before the start of the month-long World Cup, which is being hosted for the first time in Africa. Black Eyed Peas, Shakira to front World Cup concert 2010-03-17T11:50:00Z In 1976, in Soweto, a black township that is now part of Johannesburg, police opened fire on high school students protesting the enforced use of Afrikaans in their classes. Art Review: ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography 2012-09-20T22:48:21Z South Africa felt no less transformative, as they traveled into Soweto and met Indigenous musicians from Argentina, Brazil and New Zealand. Delbert Anderson’s Mission: Putting ‘Native Sound Back Into Jazz’ 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Born a few years before the end of apartheid, she continued to live in a shack in Soweto, a Black township on the outskirts of Johannesburg. An Empathetic Account of the Complexity After Apartheid 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Then there are the performers who’ve played here before — Portuguese fado singer Mariza and Soweto Gospel Choir, among them — who will be part of the UW World Series for the first time. Great things coming in UW World Series 2013-14 season 2013-02-20T20:54:20Z But Mandela and his black, mixed-race and Asian countrymen, who up until then had been cordoned off in poor, isolated townships such as the apartheid-protest hotbed of Soweto, didn’t stop there. South Africa aims to live the dream of equality for all 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Players, including former South Africa defender Lucas Radebe, will introduce the acts at the concert in Soweto's Orlando Stadium which organizers say will draw an even bigger global television audience than Live Earth in 2007. Soweto concert to get fans warmed up for World Cup 2010-06-09T17:37:00Z In a career spanning more than five decades, Masekela gained international recognition with his distinctive Afro-Jazz sound and hits such as “Soweto Blues”, which served as one of the soundtracks to the anti-apartheid movement. Father of South African jazz Hugh Masekela dies aged 78 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Rosemary Nalden will be recognised for her work in a stringed instrument school in Soweto, South Africa. 'Life-changing' musicians honoured 2013-04-24T15:21:08Z In the years after the Soweto Uprising of 1976, South Africa’s townships were papered with bold agitprop whose pared-down imagery came with a promise: This country would soon be free. Best Art Books of 2020 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Previous studies that investigated the relationship between social vulnerability and food insecurity have been limited to certain places, such as the poor and rural Eastern Cape province or the crowded urban area of Soweto. Hunger in South Africa: Study shows 1 in 5 are at risk 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z And in the streets of Soweto, everyone was doing the pantsula — until "Thriller" hit. South African created dance for World Cup 2010-07-09T19:25:00Z Although working in the cotton fields or as fishermen isn't what we were doing in Soweto," says Bosman, "we can take that story and own it. Saint and sinner: the Nelson Mandela opera 2012-06-10T16:59:01Z But the song takes off in the nonverbal moments of the chorus, when electric guitars surge and the Soweto Gospel Choir backs him in the exultant vowel sounds of “i, o, i, o.” Drake Surprises With a Kim Kardashian Sample, and 11 More New Songs 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z I knew people that were close to Mandela and while we were shooting in Cairo we made arrangements to go to Soweto to film him. Spike Lee: 'Race relations today are the direct result of having a black president' 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z All but Mr. Hutchings are based in Johannesburg or nearby Soweto. Shabaka and the Ancestors Are Making Their Own Jazz History 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z It was not coincidental for Brink that the Soweto demonstrations erupted after the Nationalist Party regime ordered black students to receive compulsory education in Afrikaans. A Traitor to His Tribe 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Soweto is South Africa's biggest township and was home to Mandela and Desmond Tutu. Soweto concert to get fans warmed up for World Cup 2010-06-09T17:37:00Z My personal high point of the year was the opening night of the £12m Soweto Theatre in May, a Gehryesque architectural tour de force in South Africa's biggest township. The best international cultural events of 2012 2012-12-05T19:00:12Z Brink had begun his own trek away from Afrikaner orthodoxy more than a decade before the Soweto riots. A Traitor to His Tribe 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Did you have any desire to use the scoreboard at Soccer City, Soweto’s brand-new stadium for 94,700 spectators? | Jenny Holzer Takes On South Africa 2010-06-15T19:15:00Z Several years later, when Clayton’s team asked Martin if he had any songs for her album, he offered “Love Is a Mighty River,” inspired by his experience performing with the Soweto Gospel Choir. The Unstoppable Merry Clayton 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z In his segregated township, Soweto, he lived near a hostel for migrants who worked in factories and mines. For This Choreographer, the Traditional Is Contemporary 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z At the very end of the film, he has a flashback to the Soweto uprising where, on 16 June 1976, police opened fire on protesting school students. Cry Freedom: Richard Attenborough makes a Mandela of Steve Biko 2010-06-10T10:07:00Z "I'm sure tomorrow is going to be an amazing experience," the Colombian singer told reporters as she visited a Soweto school. Soweto concert to get fans warmed up for World Cup 2010-06-09T17:37:00Z In “You Laugh But It’s True,” Mr. Noah talks about being shuttled between his mother’s home in Soweto, a black township near here, and a Johannesburg apartment in an all-white neighborhood where his father lived. For Trevor Noah, a Comic Sensibility Shaped by the Scars of Apartheid 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Both born in Soweto in 1991, these photographers are two of the most promising young talents in South Africa, where together they direct the Johannesburg project space Zulu Republik. 5 Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z The concert will take place on 10 June, at Orlando Stadium, in Johannesburg's Soweto district. Black Eyed Peas and Shakira among artists announced for World Cup gala 2010-03-18T10:45:00Z That song is about the road to Soweto. McLaren's Soweto 2010-04-26T13:06:00Z Created in the 1930s by the white government to relocate the black population away from Johannesburg, Soweto became the largest black city in South Africa. Tracing Nelson Mandela’s footsteps 100 years after his birth 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Featuring the Mahotella Queens, Soweto was directly inspired by the infamous township: "It was a frightening experience," the producer later told Paul Rambali. McLaren's Soweto 2010-04-26T13:06:00Z Back in Soweto, Nozinja is using the fortnightly Top Ten Dance – the name refers to the 10 best Shangaan dance groups – to audition dancers for the tour. Meet Nozinja, the Simon Cowell of Soweto's Shangaan electro scene 2013-07-05T12:00:00Z One thing I remember about growing up in Soweto is people marching against the injustices of apartheid. From Soweto song to Porgy and Bess 2012-07-16T10:23:45Z Before, Vampire Weekend's tongue-in-cheek "Upper West Side Soweto" aesthetic lifted copiously from reggae and hi-life, Mexico and calypso, influences all woven dextrously into the band's nervy urban sound. Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City – review 2013-05-11T23:05:18Z In a career spanning more than five decades, Masekela gained international recognition with his distinctive Afro-Jazz sound and hits such as “Soweto Blues”, which served as one of the soundtracks to the anti-apartheid movement. Father of South African jazz Hugh Masekela dies aged 78 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z “Rumours of Rain” was published in 1978 and set just before the Soweto protests. A Traitor to His Tribe 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Her crime was an attempt to organize a mass rally with the activist Steve Biko, after police shot at and killed student protesters in the township of Soweto. The Defiantly Everyday Drawings of Fatima Meer 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z He moved to Soweto from the north-west when he was 15 and began to learn music. BLK JKS: playing rock in a hard place 2010-06-03T21:26:00Z The singer, 33, grew up with her grandparents in Soweto until the age of eight when she went to live with her parents in Giyani, in the north-east of South Africa. From Soweto song to Porgy and Bess 2012-07-16T10:23:45Z Though part of a Soweto chain, it was more like a permanent trailer than a full-blown restaurant, and specialized in grilled chicken coated in nose-clearing peri-peri pepper sauce. Frugal Traveler: In Soweto, History From Those Who Live It 2014-02-19T19:58:06Z One sunny Monday morning I drove to Soweto to visit Petrus Molefe Park, named after a local hero of the liberation struggle. Obesity: Africa’s new crisis 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z Pieterson was the first to die from police gunfire after Soweto students were ordered to disperse. South Africa photographer honored for Soweto photo 2011-04-27T12:07:09Z Monnakgotla said he brings "something ghetto, something funky" to Soweto Fashion Week. South Africa's Soweto gets its fashion week 2012-05-24T15:07:18Z Related: Trevor Noah: from Soweto to new host of the Daily Show | Observer profile He hasn’t crashed – more like he’s set it on a new course. Trevor Noah: ‘It’s easier to be an angry white man than an angry black man’ 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z It is first evident here in the stippled symmetry of the masklike “Paternal Homage” of 1971 and expanded upon with the addition of language in “Soweto/So We Too,” of 1979. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z In 1976, Soweto high school students set off nationwide protests when they rose up against inferior education. Beloved S.African musician, 60, back at school 2012-02-16T14:19:08Z The bloodshed flowed in all directions, in Soweto and elsewhere. In theaters now: Movie reviews 2011-04-22T14:32:39Z With its unfamiliar rhythms, Soweto scraped the top 40 on release. McLaren's Soweto 2010-04-26T13:06:00Z Special truth commission hearings in late 1997 and early 1998 focused on allegations Madikizela-Mandela led a group of thugs known as the Mandela United Football Club who terrorized Soweto in the 1980s. New opera tells Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's story 2011-04-27T17:31:07Z There her mother, who worked as a teacher in Soweto during the educational boycotts and was involved with trade unions, "got into all kinds of mischief". A life in writing: Nicola Barker 2010-04-30T23:13:00Z In June 1976, when she was five, she was standing in the family yard in Soweto when she spotted a fire down the road. Beverley Ditsie: the South African woman who helped liberate lesbians everywhere 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Mabuse said in an interview in his Soweto home, decorated with souvenirs from his European, U.S. and Mideast travels. Beloved S.African musician, 60, back at school 2012-02-16T14:19:08Z Here at guardian.co.uk/music, we played Soweto on full volume. What was your minute of mayhem? 2010-04-22T11:45:00Z The title track adapts a jubilant Soweto football chant with no detectable tempo-shifting gusts of guitar. BLK JKS: playing rock in a hard place 2010-06-03T21:26:00Z Concert organizer Kevin Wall said the venue in Soweto was a symbolic choice for an event that aims to raise the profile of African music. Soweto concert to get fans warmed up for World Cup 2010-06-09T17:37:00Z The mostly white suburbs have good roads, big gardens, freestanding houses, and private pools; the mostly black townships, like Soweto, generally do not. Johannesburg by Pool 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Firstly my father, whose early beginnings were far more grim than those of my Soweto charges. Q&A: Rosemary Nalden 2013-05-10T13:14:51Z Later, he moved to Soweto and set up a string of successful mobile phone repair shops in the township. Meet Nozinja, the Simon Cowell of Soweto's Shangaan electro scene 2013-07-05T12:00:00Z Noah, who grew up in Johannesburg's Soweto township, was a surprise pick. New 'Daily Show' host Trevor Noah heralds a new frontier in TV: diversity 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z She was a teenager in the South African township of Soweto in the early 1980s, obsessed with the UK’s New Romantic movement. Beverley Ditsie: the South African woman who helped liberate lesbians everywhere 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z But the events surrounding the death and her role in contributing to black-on-black violence in Soweto are not explored. Movie Review: ‘Winnie Mandela,’ Starring Jennifer Hudson and Many Outfits 2013-09-05T21:38:48Z Shakira, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations childrens' organization UNICEF, visited Isu'lihle Primary School in Soweto as part of her philanthropic work to highlight the need to educate the young. Shakira gives dance lesson in South Africa township 2010-06-09T17:39:00Z Part 2: “Fair Play” and “From Selma to Soweto.” | 'Have You Heard From Johannesburg': Connie Field?s History of Apartheid in South Africa 2010-04-13T22:56:00Z The fire was from protests; students from schools across Soweto were out in the street following a decree from the apartheid government forcing school pupils to learn some subjects in Afrikaans. Beverley Ditsie: the South African woman who helped liberate lesbians everywhere 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Later on Thursday, the Springboks will visit Johannesburg and its township of Soweto. South Africa's rugby team begin World Cup victory tour 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Soweto was at the forefront of anti-apartheid resistance and home to Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first democratically elected president. Inside South Africa's Operation Dudula vigilantes: 'Why we hate foreigners' 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z In the Johannesburg township of Soweto, Mothibedi Mohoje’s internet cafe is almost always busy as it mainly caters to people who need its computers to apply for jobs. South Africa’s unemployment is a ‘ticking time bomb.’ Anger rises with millions jobless 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Snow has been reported in a number of provinces including the Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga and the Gauteng region which includes Johannesburg and Soweto. South Africans marvel at snow and sleet in Johannesburg during cold snap 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Three hundred feet from a retired, mural-covered power plant tower in Soweto, South Africa. Should you chase the thrill? After Titan, adventurers weigh the risks of extreme travel 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z In the township of Soweto, the police opened fire on schoolchildren, killing more than one hundred. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Waves of protests had broken out in the Black township of Soweto. Bruce Haigh, Australian envoy who aided apartheid-era escape, dies at 77 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z He arrived there shortly after riots on June 16, 1976, in Soweto, a huge and racially segregated township near Johannesburg, that became a generational icon of protest against white minority rule. Bruce Haigh, Diplomat Who Helped Battle Apartheid, Dies at 77 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Last year, 16 died in a mass shooting at a bar in the Johannesburg township of Soweto when a group of armed men, some of them wielding rifles, opened fire on customers. 10 members of same family dead in mass shooting in S. Africa 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Maqoma also recalls seeing Michael Jackson on a small black-and-white television in his Soweto home - awed by the power he commanded by the small gesture of slowly removing his signature glove. The South African choir that performed for Queen Victoria 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Mothibedi Mohoje, a small business owner in Johannesburg’s Soweto township, said that his internet and printing business is suffering as a result of the frequent power cuts. South African leader grapples with ever-worsening power cuts 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z On the streets of Soweto, the vast urban settlement on the edge of Johannesburg that was a center of resistance to the apartheid regime, people say they still see Russia as an ally. A global divide on the Ukraine war is deepening 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z The centerpiece of the weeklong trip by America’s first Black first lady was a 30-minute speech at a U.S.-sponsored leadership conference at a church in Soweto township. Jill Biden makes 6th visit to Africa, her 1st as first lady 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z At an ice cream parlour in Soweto, one company has been struggling to keep their frozen treats cold amid rolling power-cuts, referred to locally as "load shedding". Eskom crisis: What does South Africa’s state of disaster mean? 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z That’s evident nationwide; clubs in Soweto, near Johannesburg, and Umlazi, near the coastal city of Durban, are among the hottest in the country. A Vibrant Nightlife Scene Booms in South Africa’s Townships 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z The results of the A.N.C.’s failures were on stark display in Soweto, only about a 10-minute drive from where it held its conference. South Africa’s President Wins Battle to Lead A.N.C. 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z The imposition of the language in schools was the main reason behind the 1976 Soweto uprising against the apartheid regime, in which at least 170 people were killed, mostly schoolchildren. Charlize Theron condemned for saying Afrikaans is dying language 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The 25-year-old, who grew up in the township of Soweto, took inspiration from the dresses and skirts she used to borrow from her mother and grandmother in the 1980s and 1990s. South African designer revives family history in new collection 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z But there’s still no sign of those injections in Soweto. A New Shot Guards Against H.I.V., but Access for Africans Is Uncertain 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z At the Supreme Court on Friday, Julie Soweto, a lawyer for Mr. Odinga, singled out one Venezuelan official by name as the head of a “bombshell” plot. In Kenyan Elections, the People Decide First. Then Come the Judges. 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Bafana Nadida, who comes from the sprawling urban township of Soweto in Johannesburg, was delighted with putting ski boots on for the first time. Tiny African kingdom has skiing as Europe sweats summer heat 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z Mphela, 22, from Johannesburg's Soweto township, took a leap of faith four years ago and jumped into the world of Amapiano. Amapiano stars put South African dance music on the map 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z "Every night there are bullets. Shooting, every day," said one resident of Soweto, who asked to remain anonymous. South Africa gun crime: 'Every night there are bullets' 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z As Ms. Makhandule, the community health worker, has found in Soweto, there is excitement all over sub-Saharan Africa about the idea of injectable PrEP. A New Shot Guards Against H.I.V., but Access for Africans Is Uncertain 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Mr Tshabalala was born and raised in the township of Soweto, where Mandela once lived. South Africa: Teaming up with the enemy to guard Mandela 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z At least 16 people were shot dead at a tavern in the township of Soweto while four others were killed in Pietermaritzburg and two were shot dead in Katlehong, east of Johannesburg. South Africa’s many illegal guns a factor in bar shootings 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z A manhunt has been launched for 5 suspects in the Soweto shooting, Police Minister Bheki Cele said at a press conference Monday at the bar in the Nomzamo area where it took place. South Africa shocked by bar shootings, police hunt suspects 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z I visited Soweto in the aftermath of the mass killing there and people were still visibly shocked. South Africa gun crime: 'Every night there are bullets' 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z "It was such a brutality," Police Minister Bheki Cele told a crowd gathered at the scene in Soweto's Orlando East neighbourhood. Police hunt gunmen who fired 137 rounds in Soweto bar shooting 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Police are investigating the motive behind the Soweto shooting. Gunmen kill 15, wound 9 in South Africa’s Soweto township 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z One of those wounded in the Soweto shooting died in hospital on Tuesday, raising the death toll in that incident to 16. South Africa’s many illegal guns a factor in bar shootings 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Soweto residents on Monday told Cele that there was a huge number of illegal firearms in the area and pleaded with the police to deal with this situation. South Africa shocked by bar shootings, police hunt suspects 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z But gun violence is not a new problem for South Africa or even one that is unique to Soweto. South Africa gun crime: 'Every night there are bullets' 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Townships like Soweto were the creations of white minority rule, which ended in 1994 but left a legacy of widespread poverty, youth unemployment and frustration. Police hunt gunmen who fired 137 rounds in Soweto bar shooting 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z In yet another tavern shooting over the weekend, gunmen killed two people and injured four on Friday night in the Katlehong township, more than 25 miles east of Soweto. At Least 21 Dead After 3 Tavern Shootings in South Africa 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z Soweto residents have decried the abundance of illegally held guns in the area, with some telling The Associated Press that they often hear gunshots at night. South Africa’s many illegal guns a factor in bar shootings 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z At least 14 people have been shot dead in a bar in the South African township of Soweto, police say. South Africa: Fourteen shot dead in Soweto township bar 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z Buhle Ndlovu, a teacher at a nursery school in Soweto, Johannesburg’s largest township, said the power cuts increased her costs to run the school. South Africans struggle in the dark to cope with power cuts 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z A taxi drives past electricity pylons in Orlando, Soweto township, South Africa, July 20, 2020. South African power cuts could intensify due to labour protests, Eskom says 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Early Sunday morning in Soweto, in Johannesburg, a group of men armed with rifles and automatic handguns stormed a busy tavern in the Nomzamo shantytown, in the city’s Orlando East neighborhood, said Col. At Least 21 Dead After 3 Tavern Shootings in South Africa 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z Addressing the Soweto community on Monday, Cele said police would search houses to find the illegal guns that were used to terrorize the community. South Africa’s many illegal guns a factor in bar shootings 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z The policemen who shot, maimed and killed black children in the Soweto Uprisings in 1976 were following orders that were issued in Afrikaans. Ryanair Afrikaans test: Why South Africa loves and loathes the language 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z The imposition of Afrikaans in schools was the main reason behind the 1976 Soweto uprising against the apartheid regime, in which at least 170 people were killed, mostly schoolchildren. Ryanair Afrikaans test: Airline drops controversial South African quiz 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Word of Ryanair’s policy has emerged just ahead of the June 16 national holiday in South Africa that commemorates the 1976 Soweto uprisings. Ryanair Asks Travelers to Prove South African Nationality, in Afrikaans 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z The imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in schools was the main reason behind the 1976 Soweto Uprising against the apartheid regime, in which at least 170 people were killed, mostly schoolchildren. Ryanair Afrikaans test: Airline stands by South African language quiz 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z In downtown Soweto, the unemployed queue from as early as 2 a.m. to get their grants, forming snaking lines - a stark reminder of how persistent South Africa's poverty is. Analysis: More welfare or less? S.Africa's ANC confronts apartheid's legacy 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z In South Africa, Soweto resident Thoko Dube said she received news of the deaths of two family members on the same day in January 2021 - a month before the country received its first vaccines. Death toll surpasses 6 million for pandemic now in 3rd year 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z In South Africa, Soweto resident Thoko Dube said she received news of the deaths of two family members on the same day in January 2021 — a month before the country received its first vaccines. Death toll nears 6 million as pandemic enters its 3rd year 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z On 13 January 1996, they met at Soccer City stadium just outside Soweto, where 20 years earlier thousands of students had protested against white-minority rule, with hundreds killed in the police response. ‘South Africa’s Rugby World Cup win was big – but this was even bigger’ 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Tutu’s supporters have left flowers at the Cape Town cathedral and also in front of Tutu’s historic home in Soweto, Johannesburg. Tutu’s family gathers in South Africa for Cape Town funeral 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z One Christmas Day in the 1980s, Desmond Tutu led a packed church service in Soweto, the Black Johannesburg township and fulcrum of protest against white racist rule in South Africa. Tutu: a man of empathy, moral ardor, and some silly jokes 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z On a December day, a convoy of hearses with sirens wailing drove up to a shopping mall in Johannesburg’s sprawling Soweto township. Undertakers, rabbis join global fight promoting COVID shots 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z I grew up in the township of Soweto, in Johannesburg, home to another global icon, Nelson Mandela. Opinion | Desmond Tutu stood for Palestinians and many others. We should honor his global struggle for justice. 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z South Africans are laying flowers at the cathedral, in front of Tutu’s home in Cape Town’s Milnerton area, and in front of his former home in Soweto. Cape Town bells to toll in honor of Archbishop Desmond Tutu 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Watch as South Africans in the township of Soweto react to his death. 'A dark day': South Africans remember Desmond Tutu 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Evoking the Irving Berlin song ‘’White Christmas,’’ famously crooned by Bing Crosby, in tense, dusty Soweto was quintessential Tutu. Tutu: a man of empathy, moral ardor, and some silly jokes 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Ordained as a priest in 1960, Tutu went on to serve as bishop of Lesotho from 1976-78, assistant bishop of Johannesburg and rector of a parish in Soweto. Desmond Tutu: Obama joins tributes to South Africa anti-apartheid hero 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z They had four children and several grandchildren, and homes in Cape Town and Soweto township near Johannesburg. South Africa's Tutu - anti-apartheid hero who never stopped fighting for "Rainbow Nation" 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z It would take nearly 18 years and tens of thousands of deaths, but the Soweto uprising marked the beginning of the end of the apartheid era. Desmond Tutu, cleric who campaigned against apartheid in South Africa, dies at 90 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z He served as bishop of Lesotho from 1976-78, assistant bishop of Johannesburg and rector of a parish in Soweto, before his appointment as bishop of Johannesburg. Obituary: Desmond Tutu - South Africa's rebellious priest 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z South African President Cyril Ramaphosa cast his vote in the township of Soweto in Johannesburg and emphasized the nation’s progress since overthrowing apartheid. South Africa’s local vote will gauge support for ruling ANC 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Born and raised in Soweto, Mr. Ramaphosa parlayed student activism into an early career as a trade union leader, battling some of the nation’s biggest mining companies. He Brokered Apartheid’s End. Can He Save South Africa’s Liberation Party? 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z “I liberated the country, people are enjoying the benefits of it and I am still nothing, not even respected by my own government,” said Mr. Kgogo, who is 58 and lives in Soweto. They Fought Apartheid in South Africa. Now They Want Veterans’ Benefits. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z A month later, riots exploded near Johannesburg in Soweto, the country’s largest Black township. Desmond Tutu, cleric who campaigned against apartheid in South Africa, dies at 90 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Already a high-profile figure before the 1976 rebellion in black townships, it was in the months before the Soweto violence that he first became known to white South Africans as a campaigner for reform. Obituary: Desmond Tutu - South Africa's rebellious priest 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Health Minister Joe Phaahla said last month on a visit to the township of Soweto that the country had enough vaccines for now. South Africa launches drive to vaccinate 500,000 in 2 days 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Soweto, like South Africa as a whole, suffers from high youth unemployment, with all the social ills that brings. Soweto canoe club overcomes local fears to get youngsters out on the water 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z There he covered the 1976 Soweto uprising and ongoing cycles of violence and repression as the white minority government sought to maintain its racist system of apartheid. Larry Heinzerling, AP executive and bureau chief, dies at 75 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z But during his tour of Soweto, the president said he was impressed by South Africans' resilience - reflecting Mr Mandela's spirit. South Africa looting: Clean-up to mark Nelson Mandela Day 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z In South Africa's largest township Soweto, outside Johannesburg, streets were quiet on Thursday and shopkeepers were going through the wreckage left of their stores, a Reuters reporter said. S.Africa looting dies down in places as more troops expected 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Local TV stations meanwhile showed more looting of shops in South Africa’s largest township Soweto, and in the port city of Durban. South African crowds rampage overnight, defying calls for end to violence, looting 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Wealthy residents, golf courses and shopping malls are also now a feature of the country's most populous township, Soweto, near Johannesburg, as well as a large poorer population living hand-to-mouth in often cramped conditions. Scale of cash economy in South African townships stuns FirstRand 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z On June 16, 1976, thousands of Black students in Johannesburg’s Soweto township demonstrated against the imposition of the Dutch-based Afrikaans language in schools. South Africa marks anniversary of Soweto student protests 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z They include the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town, the Johannesburg Art Gallery, and Mandela’s house in the township of Soweto. S.Africa losing cultural landmarks like Apartheid Museum to COVID 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z On the hills overlooking Soweto, a Johannesburg township, Apostolic Pentecostals gathered in small groups Sunday to mark Easter. Hymns through masks: Christians mark another pandemic Easter 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z “We really need these vaccines as quickly as possible,” Michael Makhethe, an ambulance driver and first aid provider who works in the Soweto area of southern Johannesburg, told The Associated Press. South Africa welcomes first delivery of COVID-19 vaccines 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Born in the Johannesburg township of Soweto on 19 October 1937, Gwangwa went on to enjoy a highly successful musical career spanning six decades. Jonas Gwangwa The South African jazz icon who stood up to apartheid 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z "Originally, I was talking to the Soweto Gospel Choir because I wanted this project to be grand," the music producer, who works for Sony/ATV Music Publishing, said. Seeking justice for Lion Sleeps Tonight composer 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z On a recent, rainy morning in Soweto, a group of health workers moved from one community to the next, taking blood tests to check for antibodies that indicate past infection by Covid-19. Coronavirus in South Africa: Unravelling the mystery 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z In the early days of the pandemic, Soweto trains were packed with workers returning home, showing how the virus would spread. AP PHOTOS: Africa weathers COVID-19 storm in 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Earlier this year, Biden told voters at least three times that he was arrested in South Africa while trying to visit Nelson Mandela in Soweto. Analysis | Fact-checking in a post-Trump era 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Bustling markets in Soweto, Johannesburg’s biggest township, were a stark contrast to nearly deserted streets in the city’s more affluent suburbs. How inequality and poverty undermined South Africa's COVID response 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z But his experience as a paramilitary leader ended quickly, after he was arrested at home in Soweto in June 1963. Andrew Mlangeni, anti-apartheid activist imprisoned with Mandela, dies at 95 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z In other words, to compare relatively high-density areas like Soweto, with similar neighbourhoods in cities like Mombasa or Accra. Coronavirus in South Africa: Unravelling the mystery 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Through his foundation, Nobel peace laureate and former archbishop of Cape Town Desmond Tutu said that "speech in Soweto, on behalf of her father... reinvigorated the values and principles of the struggle". Mandela family praised for battling Covid stigma 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z That year, the government opened fire on students in Soweto in a series of protests that left at least 176 people dead. Lives Lost: South African activist targeted apartheid, HIV 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Lined up along a Soweto street, the young people sang anti-apartheid anthems and held up posters urging people to work together to stop the spread of the coronavirus. South Africa marks Youth Day with masks, social distancing 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z But with the commercialisation of Soweto, spaza shops are no longer social spaces, and the arcade machines no longer have a home. The best new design, from African arcade games to art you can smell 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z In Kliptown, one of the poorest parts of Soweto, to the south-west of Johannesburg, there is desperation. 'We pray for this bad time to end': the steep cost of lockdown in South Africa 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z For many people living in overcrowded townships like Soweto and informal settlements, the coronavirus is a rich white man’s disease. South Africa’s shuttered storefronts a sign of economic pain 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The most famous street in Soweto shares his name, and two Nobel Peace Prize winners - Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu - lived along it. In Soweto, a South African who celebrated history is mourned 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z The commemoration marked June 16, 1976 when students in Soweto demonstrating against the white minority government were fired upon by security forces and several students were killed. South Africa marks Youth Day with masks, social distancing 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z “Kids are playing soccer and marbles in the street, and in groups. The only thing I see is danger,” Soweto resident Thabo Moloi told Fox News. South Africans ignore stay-at-home order imposed to tackle coronavirus 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z “It is very hard, very hectic,” said Ntokozo Dube, a 29-year-old youth leader who earned an uncertain living from guiding tourists around Soweto’s landmarks until domestic and international flights were stopped seven weeks ago. 'We pray for this bad time to end': the steep cost of lockdown in South Africa 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Late on Thursday, President Cyril Ramaphosa visited soldiers before they were deployed from a base in the Soweto township of Johannesburg. South Africa begins three-week coronavirus lockdown 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z “Somi took great pride in telling people about the history of the family and Soweto,” his cousin said. In Soweto, a South African who celebrated history is mourned 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z The Soweto demonstration was a galvanizing point in the battle to end the oppression of white minority rule. South Africa marks Youth Day with masks, social distancing 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z “In a Soweto township, how do you self-isolate? The social consequences of death among the weak and the elderly are going to be just monstrous.” In World’s Most Vulnerable Countries, the Pandemic Rivals the 2008 Crisis 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Soccer City, a monstrous carbuncle looming over Soweto, was the venue. My favourite game: Uruguay v Ghana, World Cup 2010 quarter-final 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z He said it was possible to visit Soweto to meet Winnie Mandela, Mandela’s then-wife, as well as other members of the African National Congress. Analysis | Biden’s ridiculous claim he was arrested trying to see Mandela 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Those townships include Soweto, the most famous of them all. In Soweto, a South African who celebrated history is mourned 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z This anecdote was puzzling from the outset, since Robben Island, where Mandela was imprisoned at the time, is more than 700 miles from Soweto. Joe Biden’s campaign admits his story about being arrested while visiting Nelson Mandela is false 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Soweto was once a dismal township where nearby Johannesburg’s apartheid authorities dumped non-white communities. Crime, power cuts, poverty: 30 years on, the townships question Nelson Mandela’s legacy 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z “People grew up with this kind of food, but it’s difficult to find unless you travel 20 or 30 kilometers to Soweto,” he said. Uber Eats goes local to find its niche in South African food fight 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z South Africans were undoubtedly united for a day while watching the Springboks, the crowds diverse in the black township of Soweto but also in the formerly white sports clubs of suburban Johannesburg. Siya’s Springboks are exactly what Mandela envisioned 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z She travelled from Cape Town to watch the match in Soweto. South Africa celebrates first Rugby World Cup win under black captain 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z “It’s getting worse,” said Ms. Sehole, 77, sitting in one of two rooms in her house in Soweto. Soweto, Once Unified Against Apartheid, Is Now Divided by Wealth 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z The seamstress remembered being chosen to meet Mandela when he visited Soweto when president. Crime, power cuts, poverty: 30 years on, the townships question Nelson Mandela’s legacy 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z “I’m not the only one in Soweto offering this kind of food. There are many places,” he says. Uber Eats goes local to find its niche in South African food fight 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Free tickets were offered for the hastily arranged game at Orlando Stadium in Soweto. Two opponents cancel games with South Africa amid violence 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z In 1955, its residents were mostly relocated to the township of Soweto, out of the city. Vanished neighbourhoods: the areas lost to urban renewal 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Soweto, once the country’s largest black township, was a symbol of the united resistance to the racist apartheid regime and home to the anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela. Soweto, Once Unified Against Apartheid, Is Now Divided by Wealth 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z On the streets of Soweto last week, anger at the ANC government was palpable. Crime, power cuts, poverty: 30 years on, the townships question Nelson Mandela’s legacy 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z His childhood in Soweto sounds Dickensian in its violence and poverty. Trevor Noah on Trump: ‘I’m just trying to raise questions’ 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z On voting day in Soweto, a part of Johannesburg where Mandela once lived, ANC voters were confident their party would once again prevail. South Africa’s ruling African National Congress on track to win parliamentary elections 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z “Fear says to us: let’s stick with what we know; hope says: let’s bring change,” Maimane said after casting his ballot in the township of Soweto. South Africa election: early results point to reduced ANC majority 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Today, Soweto embodies the social and class divisions within South Africa’s black majority. Soweto, Once Unified Against Apartheid, Is Now Divided by Wealth 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z In a souvenir shop window, a cleaner dusts a statue of Soweto’s most famous one-time resident: Nelson Mandela. Crime, power cuts, poverty: 30 years on, the townships question Nelson Mandela’s legacy 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Longtime supporter Herbert Sithole, standing outside the Soweto polling station waiting to see the president cast his ballot, thinks he is up to the task. South Africans vote in election that may challenge long-ruling African National Congress 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z “Fear says to us let’s stick with what we know, hope says lets bring change,” Maimane said after casting his ballot in the township of Soweto. South Africa goes to polls as ANC hopes to reverse slide in support 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z The leader of South Africa’s main opposition party has cast his ballot in Dobsonville, a part of Soweto, Johannesburg’s largest black township. The Latest: South Africa’s president votes in election 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z As xenophobic violence surged across South Africa, killing at least 12, Soweto was no exception. Soweto, Once Unified Against Apartheid, Is Now Divided by Wealth 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z Soweto gained international notoriety in 1976 when policemen massacred student protesters and arrested scores of them. Most South Africans are unhappy with their democracy. Can Cyril Ramaphosa fix it? 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z At the Democratic Alliance’s final campaign rally in Soweto, the vast suburb of Johannesburg that is home to mostly poor and middle-class black South Africans, the crowd was full of the disaffected. In South Africa, a growing number of voters is looking beyond race in this week’s election 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z He is thirty-eight and photogenic, a devout Christian who grew up in Soweto and is married to a white woman. Who Owns South Africa? 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z "White people, all we want is to join you at the dinner table and eat with you," said Malema to thousands of supporters in Soweto's Orlando Stadium. South Africa's populist party takes aim at ruling ANC 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Though most of Soweto’s roads were paved in the years after apartheid ended, pockets like this part of Klipspruit were forgotten. Soweto, Once Unified Against Apartheid, Is Now Divided by Wealth 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z “White people, all we want is to join you at the dinner table and eat with you,” said Malema to thousands of supporters in Soweto’s Orlando Stadium. South Africa’s populist party takes aim at ruling ANC 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Best world music album: Soweto Gospel Choir’s “Freedom” List of early winners in top Grammy Award categories 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z The 1976 Soweto Uprising—in which some twenty thousand students marched, and several hundred were killed by the police—was held to protest the mandatory use of Afrikaans in schools. Who Owns South Africa? 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Though the film was shot in Zimbabwe, Palcy traveled undercover to Soweto to research the details. 30 years after making history with 'A Dry White Season,' director Euzhan Palcy looks back 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z As a 15-year-old in 1976, Mr. Mazibuko was a leader of the student uprising that made Soweto famous around the world, and that led the state to murder so many of his friends and schoolmates. Soweto, Once Unified Against Apartheid, Is Now Divided by Wealth 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z This year’s most exhilarating newcomers hailed from Soweto. Music without borders: 2018's 10 best world albums 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z The former talk show host on Thursday joined Graca Machel, Mandela’s widow and an advocate of women’s and children’s rights, at the Soweto campus of the University of Johannesburg. Oprah speaks on gender equality at Mandela event, to cheers 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z It was played on 16 June, Youth Day, when South Africans commemorate the Soweto uprising of 1976. Siya Kolisi, captain and symbol of South African rugby’s progress | Andy Bull 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z He became foreign minister in 1977, a year after the Soweto student uprising, in which at least 176 protesters were killed by police. Roelof ‘Pik’ Botha, South African foreign minister during apartheid, dies at 86 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z At the heart of this dichotomy is Soweto’s electricity crisis. Soweto, Once Unified Against Apartheid, Is Now Divided by Wealth 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z Poor schooling was a major spark in the anti-apartheid movement, most notably in Soweto in 1976, when thousands of students protested the introduction of Afrikaans as the language of instruction. South Africa Vows to End Corruption. Are Its New Leaders Part of the Problem? 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z The group took a tour of the Johannesburg Township of Soweto and later gave a concert there. Anne Tomlinson on two decades leading the Los Angeles Children's Chorus 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Nzima’s photograph of the Soweto student uprising galvanized international public opinion against apartheid, South Africa’s system of racial discrimination that ended in 1994. South African photographer of iconic protest image dies 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z Also controversial were the role of her bodyguards in Soweto in the 1980s, known as the Mandela United Football Club. South African liberation fighter Winnie Madikizela-Mandela laid to rest with songs, tears and cheers 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z But many poor South Africans believe electricity should be free, or at least heavily subsidized, particularly in areas like Soweto where unemployment is so high. Soweto, Once Unified Against Apartheid, Is Now Divided by Wealth 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z She was accused of conducting a virtual reign of terror in parts of Soweto by other members of the ANC in the late 1980s, and in 2003 she was convicted of fraud. Crowds gather for Winnie Mandela's funeral 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z The official funeral service for the ex-wife of the late Nelson Mandela was taking place on Saturday morning in Soweto — a Johannesburg township at the forefront of the battle against apartheid where she lived. South Africa's anti-apartheid heroine Winnie Mandela to be laid to... 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z “This is history happening. I couldn’t miss this. I am from Soweto so this is very important to me. I am very proud of her,” said Aloma Thomo, 40. Huge crowds turn out for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's funeral 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z South Africans bid farewell to liberation fighter Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Saturday in a stirring funeral service at Orlando Stadium in Soweto, with power salutes, tribute songs, tears and cheers. South African liberation fighter Winnie Madikizela-Mandela laid to rest with songs, tears and cheers 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z Soweto’s electricity standoff, then, is more than an argument about how to pay for energy. Soweto, Once Unified Against Apartheid, Is Now Divided by Wealth 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z The Soweto uprising in 1976 came a year into his residency. Patrick Soon-Shiong — immigrant, doctor, billionaire, and soon, newspaper owner — starts a new era at the L.A. Times 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z As evidence emerged in the dying years of apartheid of the brutality of her Soweto enforcers, known as the “Mandela United Football Club”, some South Africans questioned her ‘Mother of the Nation’ soubriquet. South Africa's anti-apartheid heroine Winnie Mandela to be laid to... 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z In Soweto she was deeply involved in the community, always finding time to help those in need, neighbours said. Huge crowds turn out for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's funeral 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z This photograph, titled Shop assistant, Orlando West, Soweto, 1972, is a case in point. The big picture: Shop assistant, Orlando West, Soweto, 1972 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z In one of Soweto’s flashiest bars, on a chilly evening in late July, a banker and a businessman discussed this very question over a beer. Soweto, Once Unified Against Apartheid, Is Now Divided by Wealth 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z A memorial will be held for Madikizela-Mandela at the Regina Mundi Catholic Church in Soweto on April 11, and her funeral will occur at Orlando Stadium there three days later. Candles, flowers laid at home of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Outside her home in Soweto, mourners sang old struggle songs into the night. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela leaves behind a complicated legacy 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z In 1976, the year of the Soweto riots, she was banished from the township to a remote rural area. Winnie Mandela in six quotes 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Women’s league members from South Africa’s ruling party sang outside Madikizela-Mandela’s house in the Soweto area of Johannesburg on Tuesday. South African mourners visit home of Madikizela-Mandela 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z On Monday night, crowds of mourners gathered outside Madikizela-Mandela’s home in the Soweto township, a centre of anti-apartheid resistance that remained her base decades after the end of white minority rule. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela to be given state funeral 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z A federal magistrate judge recently refused to let them travel to the Soweto International Jazz Festival in Johannesburg. Indicted musicians seek permission for South Africa trip 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z She came from what is now Eastern Cape and, against the odds, became a social worker at a Soweto hospital. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela leaves behind a complicated legacy 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Soon-Shiong received his medical degree at the University of Witwatersrand, where in the late 1970s he treated South Africans who had been injured during the Soweto riots. Who is Patrick Soon-Shiong? An L.A. billionaire with big ideas — and mixed achievements 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z The joyful memorial was being staged Sunday at the Soweto campus of the University of Johannesburg. Musicians at South African memorial celebrate Hugh Masekela 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z Indeed, songs like Soweto Blues would provide the soundtrack of the movement. Hugh Masekela: South Africa's 'Father of Jazz' 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z “I was like: ‘What, a punk band from Soweto?’” ‘We rebel against the system’: inside Soweto’s thriving punk scene 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z The grim disclosure came a fortnight after a security guard was arrested for assaulting 87 girls at a Soweto primary school. Fighting child sex crimes in South Africa: 'We've seen an increase in brutality' | Hannah Summers 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z "Things are going extremely well. They could not go better," a smiling Ramaphosa said while touring vendors' stalls next to the conference venue in Soweto, southwest of Johannesburg. Cyril Ramaphosa's election as head of the ANC means he'll probably be South Africa's next president – LA Times 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Ramaphosa, the son of a police sergeant, was educated in Soweto schools. Cyril Ramaphosa vows to unite ANC after rise to leadership 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Heading into the leadership conference in the township of Soweto outside Johannesburg, supporters of Mr. Ramaphosa and Ms. Dlamini-Zuma eyed each other suspiciously. Cyril Ramaphosa Named Leader of African National Congress 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Today, Soweto is a thriving, sprawling urban hub, home to 1.27 million South Africans. ‘We rebel against the system’: inside Soweto’s thriving punk scene 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z Over a few weeks in 1986, during his commute to and from work, he made a series of remarkable photographs on the Soweto-Johannesburg train. Victory in the Shadows 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The stampede happened on Saturday during a game between top South African teams Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs in the Soweto area of Johannesburg. Stadium stampede kills 2 at soccer match in South Africa 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z Detained in 1974 by apartheid authorities and then in the crackdown that followed the Soweto uprising of 1976, he endured two terms of imprisonment that were “very painful psychologically”, Butler said. Cyril Ramaphosa vows to unite ANC after rise to leadership 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z She was born in South Africa in 1976, the year of the Soweto Uprising led by black students protesting apartheid. 2 lives intersect in aftermath of deadly apartheid protest 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z The heart of the scene is Dube, a Soweto suburb named after the first president of the ruling African National Congress. ‘We rebel against the system’: inside Soweto’s thriving punk scene 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z Photos of Miss South Africa wearing gloves while visiting black children at an orphanage in Soweto sparked a online outcry - but the orphanage staff say any insinuation that Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters is racist is "ridiculous". Beauty queen wearing gloves at orphanage 'not racist' - BBC News 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z In later life he favourably contrasted the collective spirit of African football, especially in Soweto, with the economic bigotry he saw taking over the game in the UK. The Stanley Matthews football revolution made in Ghana - BBC News 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z The woman was buried in Johannesburg's Soweto township. Will I be next? South Africa women ask - BBC News 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z I was in Walter Sisulu's home in Soweto when he was brought home in the middle of the night. Letter from Africa: Remembering South Africa's Ahmed Kathrada - BBC News 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z A couple of women on their way through the area stop to soak up the unexpected sight of four guys from Soweto, thrashing. ‘We rebel against the system’: inside Soweto’s thriving punk scene 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z They are joined by coffins of those killed in the Soweto uprising in 1976. ‘You’ve got to keep painting’: After fire tore through a D.C. studio, two artists begin to move forward 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z All took place in, or near, the Johannesburg township of Soweto. South Africa police warn of taxi rape gang in Johannesburg - BBC News 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z She was abducted at a Soweto taxi rank in February by a stranger on her way back from the shopping mall in the evening. Will I be next? South Africa women ask - BBC News 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Soccer City, perched on the edge of Soweto, played host to the final. The Joy of Six: Africa Cup of Nations memorable moments 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z “We are rebelling against the system: going to work every day, waking up, running after the bus,” says Mbuso “Moose” Zulu, 31, one of the founders of Soweto’s skate punk scene. ‘We rebel against the system’: inside Soweto’s thriving punk scene 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z On a Monday evening at Meli, a smart bar in Soweto, the mood is jovial. South Africa's battle with the bottle - BBC News 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Here it tried to turn itself into the Soweto Gospel Choir for a vaguely South African riff on “O Come All Ye Faithful,” which was exactly as embarrassing as it sounds. 'Christmas in Rockefeller Center': Holiday entertainment only a network exec could love 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z At the workshop I attended in Soweto, some were justifying reasons for physically abusing their partners. Will I be next? South Africa women ask - BBC News 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z In the political unrest, Noah lost touch with his father – though they are in contact now – and his dauntless mother raised him alone, largely in Soweto. The Daily Show's Trevor Noah: ‘I am extremely political’ 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z I spent a couple of those hours chatting with a staff member who lived in Soweto and was proud of it. The History of Southern Africa, by Train 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z For the first six years of his life, Noah was prohibited from playing with his black cousins in the streets of Soweto for fear that the police would nab him. ‘Daily Show’ host pens a remarkable memoir of his South African childhood 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Another randomly acquired name is that of Soweto, the bleak city on the edge of Johannesburg that grew, equally bleakly, out of the English acronym for south-western townships. War, persecution and ego: how do cities get their names? 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z She described how she grew up in Soweto, the proud heart of the liberation struggle rule. Thuli Madonsela: South Africa's corruption crusader - BBC News 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Already he has started handing out title deeds to residents of Soweto, giving them formal ownership of their own homes. Capitalist crusader 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z We were due to pass within sight of Soweto, the township and major suburb of Johannesburg. The History of Southern Africa, by Train 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z He was drawn into cross-border drug smuggling, the area’s only real trade, and wound up in Soweto selling drugs to dealers. From a bridge in South Africa, sidewalk bookseller believes in the power to change lives 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Maimane, 36 years old, is a preacher raised in the sprawling township of Soweto, famous as the crucible of resistance to white-minority rule. South Africa’s Ruling ANC Faces New Threats on Two Fronts 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z People in the Kliptown section of Soweto, the largest township in South Africa. South African Voters Rebuke Ruling ANC Party 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Voters in the sprawling township of Soweto, famous for its resistance to white-minority rule, filed in to Orlando West High School on Wednesday morning, one of more than 22,000 polling stations. South Africa’s Ruling ANC Facing Election Challenge 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z “I believe I will be the first black botanist in Soweto,” said the 18-year-old student, expressing the ambition many hoped would drive students in postapartheid South Africa. South Africa’s Schools, Like the Nation, Are Falling Short 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z “Murder is wrong in the gulag, in Afghanistan, in Soweto, in the mountains of Guatemala, in Fairfax County,” he once declared, as one of his clients was about to be put to death. On Death Penalty Cases, Tim Kaine Revealed Inner Conflict 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z And there are others, she said over lunch at a steak and ribs place in Soweto’s Maponya Mall. ‘We have only one shot’: The Hutch’s quest to wipe out AIDS in South Africa 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z People are seen at an informal market in the Kliptown section of Soweto, whose English name derives from abbreviating South Western Townships. South African Voters Rebuke Ruling ANC Party 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Today, South Africa commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Soweto uprising, as that day is now known. Soweto uprising 40 years on: the image that shocked the world 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z His mother died eight years ago, leaving him an orphan, and he moved with four brothers to the Soweto home of an aunt, a retired baker. South Africa’s Schools, Like the Nation, Are Falling Short 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z “What has changed? Nothing has changed,” said Seth Mazibuko, one of the organizers of the 1976 Soweto protest who is today the head of the June 16 Youth Development Foundation. 40 years after students sparked apartheid's end, a new anger 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Gray remembers that as a white pediatrician in Johannesburg’s Soweto township, she was called a “killer of black women” because she gave them antiretrovirals to prevent transmission of HIV in childbirth. ‘We have only one shot’: The Hutch’s quest to wipe out AIDS in South Africa 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z A vendor selling souvenirs in Soweto waits for customers, just days after the death of Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became the country's first black chief executive. South African Voters Rebuke Ruling ANC Party 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Related: Soweto: cradle of struggle against apartheid pays tribute to Mandela In Kliptown, on the south-eastern fringe of the township, 45,000 people live on dusty streets without access to schools or jobs. Soweto uprising 40 years on: the image that shocked the world 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z "What has changed? Nothing has changed," said Seth Mazibuko, one of the organizers of the 1976 Soweto protest who is today the head of the June 16 Youth Development Foundation. 40 years after students sparked apartheid's end, a new anger 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Students once again marched through Soweto last weekend, following one of the routes used by the protesters in 1976. 40 years after students sparked apartheid's end, a new anger 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z A couple hours later, she stood in Freedom Park, one of Soweto’s poorest neighborhoods, underneath a marquee bearing the initials of her clinic, PHRU, short for Perinatal HIV Research Unit. ‘We have only one shot’: The Hutch’s quest to wipe out AIDS in South Africa 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z A dancer for the Joburg Ballet performs for students at the Nka-Thuto Primary School in Soweto, an urban area in Johannesburg. South African Voters Rebuke Ruling ANC Party 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z In parts of Soweto too, deep poverty remains. Soweto uprising 40 years on: the image that shocked the world 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Forty years ago, black students in Johannesburg's Soweto township marched in protest and some were gunned down by police, appalling the world. 40 years after students sparked apartheid's end, a new anger 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Forty years ago, black students in Johannesburg’s Soweto township marched in protest and some were gunned down by police, appalling the world. 40 years after students sparked apartheid's end, a new anger 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z A star recruiter for trials run out of an HVTN-affiliated clinic in Soweto’s massive Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, she was expecting a woman interested in volunteering for the antibody study to show up for screening. ‘We have only one shot’: The Hutch’s quest to wipe out AIDS in South Africa 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z People in the Kliptown section of Soweto, the largest township in South Africa. South African Voters Rebuke Ruling ANC Party 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Within days of the Soweto uprising of 16 June, it became clear that Mbuyisa would follow his father into uncertain exile. Soweto uprising 40 years on: the image that shocked the world 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Students once again marched through Soweto last week, following one of the routes used by the protesters in 1976. 40 years after students sparked apartheid's end, a new anger 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z A few hours later, students were pouring in from across Soweto, waving their placards and singing. This Photo Inspired the World to Fight Against Apartheid 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Madonsela was born in 1962 in Soweto, outside Johannesburg, 14 years before the uprising in the township that inspired widespread resistance to the apartheid regime. How a quiet, wonky lawyer became South Africa’s corruption-buster 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z A vendor selling souvenirs in Soweto waits for customers, just days after the death of Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became the country's first black chief executive. South African Voters Rebuke Ruling ANC Party 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z But Zongezile Makhubo insists that, despite all the problems facing South Africa and Soweto 40 years after the uprising, he is hopeful. Soweto uprising 40 years on: the image that shocked the world 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The Natives Resettlement Act of 1954 saw the forced removal of tens of thousands of black South Africans from the city’s western areas like Sophiatown to new suburbs like Soweto, far away to the south-west. Can Johannesburg reinvent itself as Africa’s first cycle-friendly megacity? 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z “To us the picture is a misery,” says Nontsikelelo, as she gazes at a replica on the bookshelf of her Soweto home. This Photo Inspired the World to Fight Against Apartheid 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Malema spoke Saturday to supporters of his Economic Freedom Fighters party who filled the Orlando Stadium in Soweto. South Africa Opposition Leader Says Zuma Should Step Down 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z A dancer for the Joburg Ballet performs for students at the Nka-Thuto Primary School in Soweto, an urban area in Johannesburg. South African Voters Rebuke Ruling ANC Party 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Malema spoke on Saturday to supporters of his Economic Freedom Fighters party who filled the Orlando Stadium in Soweto. Fiery South African opposition leader warns President Jacob Zuma to step down before army turns on him 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z Which leaves aside the amazing hospitality I’ve found in Johannesburg and Soweto. How driving around the world gave me a crash course in cultures 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Another countered that there was no better illustration of what was happening in Soweto. This Photo Inspired the World to Fight Against Apartheid 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Evicted from the central-city neighbourhoods, many migrants were relocated to townships such as Soweto. Story of cities #19: Johannesburg's apartheid purge of vibrant Sophiatown 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z People are seen at an informal market in the Kliptown section of Soweto, whose English name derives from abbreviating South Western Townships. South African Voters Rebuke Ruling ANC Party 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z In June, South Africa will mark 40 years since the 1976 Soweto uprising, when black students refused to accept Afrikaans - imposed on them by the apartheid government - as the language of learning. South Africa unease plays out on campus - BBC News 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z "We wanted to bring that scene to our audiences and through enlisting expert performers such as Soweto, Emma and Al, I am confident Jazz Now will do just that." Soweto Kinch to front revamped Radio 3 jazz show - BBC News 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Soweto was in flames, and the riots lasted for days. This Photo Inspired the World to Fight Against Apartheid 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Among them was Salat Abdullahi, 20, who moved from Somalia to Soweto to run a spaza shop with his older brother. To the land of good hope 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z In 1983 she was first illegally held for a week at a police barracks in Johannesburg by officers from the intelligence unit of the Soweto Special Branch, where she was beaten, slapped and suffocated. Four former apartheid-era guards on trial over 1983 student murder 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The National Prosecuting Authority says the female activist, Nokuthula Simelane, disappeared while being held by the Soweto Special Branch, a police unit. South African prosecutors plan to charge 4 former members of the apartheid-era security forces for the 1983 murder of an activist who opposed white-minority rule 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z One of the most depressing sites in post-apartheid South Africa is the bussing of black children out of townships like Johannesburg's Soweto. Is South Africa's education system really 'in crisis'? - BBC News 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z For a child growing up in Soweto, South Africa, in 1976, apartheid was an abstract concept. This Photo Inspired the World to Fight Against Apartheid 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Chanting a 21st century slogan #FeesMustFall, this was an organic uprising - similar to one I witnessed in Soweto back in June 1976. South Africa still awaits its golden age - BBC News 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Students boycotted classes, as black youth had done in the famous Soweto student uprisings of 1976. Why South African students have turned on their parents’ generation | Eve Fairbanks 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z People danced in the streets of Soweto, the biggest black township. Vuvuzelas, Pistorius and Mugabe’s warped rule: my six years in Africa 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Meyiwa, a popular and charismatic player for South Africa and Soweto club Orlando Pirates, was shot by an intruder at his girlfriend’s house in a township near Johannesburg in October 2014. Insurance payout for 2014 killing of SAfrica soccer captain 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Every year Nzima meets with young South African student groups to teach them about the Soweto uprising. This Photo Inspired the World to Fight Against Apartheid 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Noah's childhood was divided between his mother's home in Soweto and his father's residence in the Hillbrow neighborhood, then entirely white. Is Trevor Noah set for 'The Daily Show'? Let the 'cultural chameleon' fill you in 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z In his teens, Chikane’s family moved from the black township of Soweto to the “leafy suburbs” – South African slang for the posh, formerly whites-only neighbourhoods that are often shaded by stately jacaranda trees. Why South African students have turned on their parents’ generation | Eve Fairbanks 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Born in Johannesburg, he grew up in the township of Soweto and was brought up by his mother, Patricia, and his grandmother, Nomalizo, attending a private Catholic school in the city. Trevor Noah: from Soweto to new host of the Daily Show | Observer profile 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z But this is Soweto, the famous black township that was the centre of the anti-apartheid struggle in the 1970s and 1980s. Trendy townships 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Jada, via instagram: "We also went to visit Nelson Mandela's home in Soweto, where he lived before and briefly after his imprisonment. It's now a museum full of amazing keepsakes and artifacts." Chris Paul and wife share photos, videos of experience in South Africa 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The accident happened at rush hour on Friday between two stations, with both trains traveling from the Johannesburg city center to the township of Soweto. Only 8 people still in hospital after 239 injured in train crash, says S. Africa rail official 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z Both were heading from the Johannesburg city center to the township of Soweto. World Digest: July 17, 2015 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z They’re setting off on their weekly “social cycle” around Johannesburg organized by a small band from Soweto who call themselves Fixin Diaries. Soweto cyclists bring new style to streets of Johannesburg 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The Soweto mansion, which is being sold by the widow of a prominent local doctor, is listed in the property pages next to equally pricey homes in the northern suburbs. Trendy townships 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z We also went to visit Nelson Mandela's home in Soweto, where he lived before and briefly after his imprisonment. Chris Paul and wife share photos, videos of experience in South Africa 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z They're setting off on their weekly "social cycle" around Johannesburg organized by a small band from Soweto who call themselves Fixin Diaries. Soweto cyclists Fixin Diaries use style, DIY ethic to transform Johannesburg biking culture 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The church event resembled a stage musical starring the Tutu clan with backup from the Soweto Gospel Choir. Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu and wife Leah, who said 'I do' in 1955, renew wedding vows 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z The Melville shop, nicknamed the Fishbowl, opened in April as an outpost of Fixin Diaries’ original shop in Soweto. Soweto cyclists bring new style to streets of Johannesburg 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z But Soweto offers a cachet that just can’t be found in Johannesburg’s leafy north. Trendy townships 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z While in Soweto, they saw some children playing soccer. Chris Paul and wife share photos, videos of experience in South Africa 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The Melville shop, nicknamed the Fishbowl, opened in April as an outpost of Fixin Diaries' original shop in Soweto. Soweto cyclists Fixin Diaries use style, DIY ethic to transform Johannesburg biking culture 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z To be sure, the apartheid government actively sought to make life difficult in Soweto. Power Outages Dim South Africa’s Prospects 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z “I always supported the A.N.C.,” said Ms. Ngwenya, who grew up in Soweto, a black township outside Johannesburg, but now lives in a wealthy suburb. Weak Power Grids in Africa Stunt Economies and Fire Up Tempers 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z If she ever retires, she says, as she manoeuvres her hatchback towards Soweto, where she is due to take a DNA sample, she’d like to start a museum commemorating the missing. The odd couple: why an apartheid activist joined forces with a murderer 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z The South African township of Soweto is currently hosting its own fashion week. Designer Collen Monnakgotla prepares for Soweto Fashion Week - BBC News 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Smith Mangena, from Soweto in South Africa, was the first African to compete in the world championships. Street workout to get South African children fit - BBC News 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Yet the desperation of many young people is on display in Soweto’s Snake Park neighborhood, where frequent blackouts are fueling a crime wave. Power Outages Dim South Africa’s Prospects 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Mr Maimane was born in the Soweto township in Johannesburg, where Nelson Mandela lived for many years. South Africa opposition 'to elect Maimane first black leader' - BBC News 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Residents blocked the streets of the Soweto neighborhood that was once home to anti-apartheid icons Mandela and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu, and now a popular tourist spot in Johannesburg. Residents, workers protest in South African cities 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z The Alma Chamber Orchestra, which includes musicians from top French orchestras, performed Mozart and Vivaldi concertos at the Soweto church and was joined by a local string ensemble. SAfrica: Charity, solidarity arise in anti-foreigner attacks 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Born in Soweto, Moshoeu had two spells at South African club giant Kaizer Chiefs and played for four clubs in Turkey. Former South Africa international ‘Shoes’ Moshoeu dies 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z In January this year, four people died during a week of looting of foreign-owned shops and other violence in Soweto and other areas of Johannesburg. Anti-immigrant violence in South Africa spreads 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z Last month, a meeting in Soweto called on the government to stop treating foreigners with kid gloves. South Africa grapples with outbreak of anti-immigrant violence 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The South African government offered the FNB Stadium in Soweto - formerly known as Soccer City - the country’s most famous sports ground and the venue for the 2010 World Cup final. ‘Unknown hero’ Steve Mokone remembered in South Africa 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z Stewart, also on Twitter, said: "Very excited to welcome our next host: @Trevornoah! That's right - another guy in late night from Soweto." South African comedian to replace Jon Stewart on 'The Daily Show' 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Young people in Soweto would hear Bobby Kennedy talk about ripples of hope and eventually banish the scourge of apartheid. Obama's Selma speech: 'Our march is not yet finished' 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z This month, though, he ended up barricaded in his Soweto shop while looters threatened him. South Africa riots raise worry about anti-foreign sentiment 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z What is more, the old white enemy is nowhere in sight in Soweto - which encompasses many parts, some historical some middle class and some very poor - as dark people target each other. Letter from Africa: Soweto still burning 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z The shooting of a teenager by a shop owner in Soweto, South Africa, led to days of violence and the looting of immigrant-owned shops. Watching 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Noah, born of a South African mother and Swiss father, grew up in Johannesburg's Soweto township. South African comedian to replace Jon Stewart on 'The Daily Show' 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Police said in a statement issued on Friday that the suspects were arrested for public violence and possession of stolen property in the Soweto township south of Johannesburg. 153 arrested in South Africa looting 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Residents began looting shops and attacking foreign nationals in the Soweto area of Johannesburg after a teen-ager was allegedly shot dead by a foreign shop owner on Monday, the South African Press Association said. 2 killed in South Africa riots 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The fires may be doused in Soweto for now, but South Africa's 2015 leadership must protect all who work and live in these townships which only the past seems to hold holy. Letter from Africa: Soweto still burning 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z We met Ndileka Mandela in Soweto at her grandfather's old home now turned a museum. Nelson Mandela's death – South Africa one year on 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z His father worked for the stock exchange, and his mother ran an orphanage and day-care center in Soweto at the height of apartheid. John Briscoe, a water-resource expert who championed dams, dies at 66 While Soweto was calm Friday, police reacted to reports of looting in townships to the west and north of Johannesburg, according to the South African Press Association. 153 arrested in South Africa looting 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z There is a great deal of talent in Soweto. Why SA rugby is still torn over race 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Five of the stadiums were built especially for the tournament, including Soccer City in Soweto, which hosted the final. SA firms accused of World Cup fixing 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z It also acts as Soweto’s de facto sewage system. A Water Project Cleans Up Nairobi's Slum Meyiwa, who played for Soweto team Orlando Pirates, was given a funeral in KwaZulu-Natal province at the weekend, which was attended by thousands of his fans. SA guns 'to make footballer statue' 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z This weekend's Johannesburg derby between Soweto giants Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates was postponed as a mark of respect. Suspect in killing of South Africa national soccer captain arrested 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Where would you date that sentiment from Zola Ntlokoma, secretary of Soweto Rugby Club? Why SA rugby is still torn over race 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Maarohanye was one of South Africa's best-known rappers, but fell from grace after smashing his car into the pupils in Johannesburg's Soweto township in 2010. SA rapper's murder verdict quashed 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z After all, most Soweto residents do not even have mailboxes to which bills could be sent. A Water Project Cleans Up Nairobi's Slum “It didn’t look like America. It looked like Soweto,” Mr. Lyon said, referring to the South African township that was a hotbed of protests against apartheid. Ferguson Images Evoke Civil Rights Era and Changing Visual Perceptions 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z In the same, ultimately unsuccessful interview, she recalled how she grew up in Soweto, the black township near here, in a two-room house where she shared one room with her brothers and sisters. Oscar Pistorius Trial Judge Overcame Apartheid 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z It was true in Soweto and Belfast, and it is true in Gaza. Collective Punishment in Gaza 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Robert Kitur, police chief in Mombasa, said Monday that three gunmen opened fire indiscriminately in the Soweto slum of the city Sunday night. Gunmen Kill Three on Kenya Coast, Officials Say 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Getting water delivered straight to your home seems like such a prosaic thing, but for Soweto residents it has been life-changing. A Water Project Cleans Up Nairobi's Slum “My visit to Soweto became an early lesson in how naïve I was,” he said, according to the text of the speech posted by Stanford. Bill and Melinda Gates talk about optimism and suffering in Stanford commencement address 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z It was a period of profound change during which blacks increasingly challenged the apartheid system, leading to a series of protests in Soweto in 1976. Oscar Pistorius Trial Judge Overcame Apartheid 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z In response, students living in Soweto took to the streets to protest at the changes. The riots that started in a classroom 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Gates described his first visit to South Africa, where he attended a dinner at which his host summoned the butler with a bell before visiting impoverished residents of Soweto the following day. Opportunity, Optimism, and Opinion: Commencement Wisdom From Bill And Melinda Gates, Steve Ballmer 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z In Soweto, the locals are excited that the program will be expanded to include sewage services. A Water Project Cleans Up Nairobi's Slum Hundreds of residents barricaded a major road in Soweto protesting against bucket toilets. Revealing SA protest over toilets 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Emilia DiMenco walked through Regina Mundi church in Soweto, South Africa, on a January morning, with sunlight filtering through the azure and orange windows and hitting the pews of the historically significant building. Executive profile: An advocate for female business owners 2014-05-04T03:38:56Z In 1976, the apartheid government in South Africa introduced Afrikaans as the first language of Soweto schools. The riots that started in a classroom 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z I was born in Soweto, the famous Johannesburg township that used to be home to Nelson Mandela. Is South Africa ready for mixed-race love? 2014-04-22T23:44:04Z The utility says they are currently collecting about nearly double the monthly usage fees from Soweto since Jisomee Mita was implemented. A Water Project Cleans Up Nairobi's Slum Although still poor, Soweto is unmistakably on the rise, evidenced by the growing number of tidy brick bungalows and shiny Toyotas, and even the odd BMW. South Africa's 'spaza' shops suffer as big retail rolls in 2014-04-20T09:04:38Z Two days earlier, a man from Soweto attends an equestrian vaulting lesson at a horse-riding centre in the South African township. Africa in pictures: 11-17 April 2014 2014-04-18T18:34:06Z A South African boy is carried by Brazil's players at the end of a friendly match between South Africa and Brazil at Soccer City stadium in Soweto, on Wednesday. Africa in pictures: 28 February - 06 March 2014 2014-03-07T16:22:49Z Westminster Abbey, usually a place for a rather sober state occasion, was filled with the sound of the Soweto Gospel Choir. Mandela service: 'A fitting tribute' 2014-03-03T17:08:59Z But in Soweto—and throughout the developing world—no drop is taken for granted. A Water Project Cleans Up Nairobi's Slum "By then I'll be old and almost a pensioner," said Mulutsi, a short, stocky man clad in a shirt emblazoned with the logo of the Soweto soccer giants Kaiser Chiefs. Potatoes for a week: a South African platinum miner on strike 2014-01-30T16:27:35Z Meanwhile, Soweto households were acquiring new appliances, raising bills. An electricity boycott in Soweto outlives even Nelson Mandela 2013-12-21T12:00:00Z Mr. Jantjie told several news agencies last week that he was schizophrenic and had hallucinated while onstage at the memorial, seeing angels descending into the Soweto stadium where the event was held. Interpreter at Mandela Service Is Tied to Deadly 2003 Attack 2013-12-16T19:51:56Z Their best-selling items are normally caps and T-shirts with the name of Soweto, the country's most famous township, known around the world as being the heart of the resistance against apartheid. Mandela - the face of South Africa 2013-12-15T00:04:20Z The ability to pay whenever was a boon for the many Soweto residents who make their living in an informal sector that pays no mind to monthly billing cycles. A Water Project Cleans Up Nairobi's Slum The long queues of people hoping to view the body were reminiscent of scenes in 1994 when voters queued in Soweto for the first multiracial elections... Mandela ANC goodbye ahead of burial 2013-12-14T01:19:15Z “All over customers are paying except one township: Soweto,” Dames said. An electricity boycott in Soweto outlives even Nelson Mandela 2013-12-21T12:00:00Z Given Mr. Obama’s mixed record in Africa, it is apt that he reminded the crowd in Soweto of Mr. Mandela’s insistence on acknowledging his shortcomings. Listening Post: In Obama’s Praise of Mandela, a Nudge to Africa 2013-12-13T18:38:24Z Ricky spoke to members of a youth orchestra in Soweto, where Nelson Mandela spent much of his life. Pictures: Ricky visits South Africa 2013-12-13T14:53:40Z They married a year later and Winnie kept a portion of the wedding cake for over 30 years, until their house in Soweto burned down. Nelson Mandela's Long and Hungered Walk To Freedom 2013-12-12T17:45:09.987Z This was the scene in Soweto on polling day in April 1994. Mandela ANC goodbye ahead of burial 2013-12-14T01:19:15Z “The rent boycott was not just a rent boycott. It was a political strategy,” said Mavi Panyane, an organizer of the Soweto Civic Association in the 1980s who now works for the city government. An electricity boycott in Soweto outlives even Nelson Mandela 2013-12-21T12:00:00Z He was a constant presence on the stage of the national memorial on Tuesday, watched not only by the audience in the vast soccer stadium in Soweto but by hundreds of millions on television. Interpreter at Mandela Memorial Says He Saw ‘Angels’ 2013-12-12T12:45:55Z But according to the people of Soweto and the wider world, he was a hero. Mandela liberated South Africa - and me 2013-12-11T08:02:03Z In the esplanade of the Union Buildings, a military honor guard formed up as the coffin arrived under bright skies — a marked contrast with the rain that drenched Tuesday’s ceremony in Soweto. Body of Nelson Mandela Lies in State in Pretoria 2013-12-11T07:20:37Z As Obama made his way to the podium to speak at the memorial for Mandela in a Soweto soccer stadium, he walked down a line of dignitaries, greeting other leaders in attendance. Obama critics focus on a selfie and a handshake 2013-12-11T01:59:28Z The electricity giant, heavily in debt, says that it is a burden to subsidize Soweto residents when capital needs are great. An electricity boycott in Soweto outlives even Nelson Mandela 2013-12-21T12:00:00Z In another conversation with The Star newspaper, Mr. Jantjie, 34, said he had started hearing voices and hallucinating while on stage in the FNB stadium in Soweto. Interpreter at Mandela Memorial Says He Saw ‘Angels’ 2013-12-12T12:45:55Z In the 1980s, while Nelson Mandela was serving his life sentence on Robben Island, we were roaming the streets of South Africa's largest township Soweto, his shadow looming large over us. Mandela liberated South Africa - and me 2013-12-11T08:02:03Z It lies in Soweto, the once-segregated township where riots, protests and bloodletting in 1976 helped hasten the unraveling of apartheid while Mr. Mandela was in prison. Scores of World Leaders to Attend Mandela Memorial 2013-12-09T13:10:15Z Well wishers have lit candles there and laid thousands of wreaths of flowers at his old home in Soweto. Mandela daughter recalls final hours 2013-12-09T12:14:56Z Well wishers have lit candles there and laid thousands of wreaths of flowers and at his old home in Soweto. SA parliament to remember Mandela 2013-12-09T05:40:54Z Prime Minister David Cameron will represent the UK and join other world leaders at the memorial on Tuesday in Soweto. Parliament to pay tribute to Mandela 2013-12-09T01:13:39Z Soweto is an apartheid creation, a cluster of mini townships. Mandela liberated South Africa - and me 2013-12-11T08:02:03Z The front page picture is again of a young girl in Soweto holding a candle for the late Madiba, as Mr Mandela was known. MPs' pay 'fury' and NHS drink strain 2013-12-08T23:43:46Z The Regina Mundi Catholic Church in Soweto became known as "the people's church" after anti-apartheid campaigners used it as a secure venue to plan their outlawed activities after Mr Mandela was arrested. Nelson Mandela death: Giving thanks for 'Madiba' 2013-12-08T15:25:10Z The focal points for public remembrance have so far been Mr Mandela's house in the Johannesburg suburb of Houghton and his old home in Soweto. Many world leaders to mourn Mandela 2013-12-08T17:11:58Z An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of a priest at the Regina Mundi church in Soweto, South Africa. South Africans Embark on Day of ‘Prayer and Reflection’ for Mandela 2013-12-08T14:25:31Z She is also haunted by the murder 25 years ago of two men last seen being beaten at her house in Soweto: their bodies were unearthed for re-examination in March. Mandela's Legacy of Successors 2013-12-07T22:05:21Z In Soweto, crowds danced and children ran through the streets. South Africans Prepare for Days of Mandela Commemoration 2013-12-07T09:48:10Z His former wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, is a polarizing figure, as underscored when the bodies of two young men last seen severely beaten at her house 25 years ago were unearthed in Soweto this year. Disappointment in Successors to Revered Father of a Nation 2013-12-07T03:57:44Z The i chooses the same lead image as its sister paper - a poster of the late president outside his former home in Soweto. 'Mourning after' and World Cup draw 2013-12-06T22:50:54Z Some churches, most notably Regina Mundi in Soweto, became crucibles of dissent. South Africans Embark on Day of ‘Prayer and Reflection’ for Mandela 2013-12-08T14:25:31Z In Soweto, people danced in the streets to celebrate the life of Nelson Mandela. Crowds celebrate Mandela's life 2013-12-06T22:18:28Z On Dec. 10, Presidents, Prime Ministers, rock stars and actors will attend the biggest at Soccer City, the vast national stadium on the edge of Soweto, outside Johannesburg. Mandela's Jailer Mourns 2013-12-06T19:35:25Z I would spend the day following a family who lived in the black township of Soweto. Memories of a South African Election Day 2013-12-06T17:31:25Z In the cities, blacks were forcibly restricted to townships like Soweto, vast mires of poverty. The Indispensable Man: South Africa Ponders a Future Without Nelson Mandela 2013-12-06T09:20:26Z United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was among the latest to announce his plans, saying through a spokesman late Saturday that he would attend Tuesday’s commemoration in the FNB soccer stadium just outside Soweto. South Africans Embark on Day of ‘Prayer and Reflection’ for Mandela 2013-12-08T14:25:31Z South Africans continue to gather in Johannesburg and Soweto to pay tribute to their former leader, Nelson Mandela, who died on Thursday aged 95. Crowds celebrate Mandela's life 2013-12-06T22:18:28Z Crowds paid tribute, dancing and singing in front of Mr Mandela's former home in Soweto throughout the night. South Africa and world mourn Mandela 2013-12-06T06:03:27Z |
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