Find more facts and information on our topic page about
Soweto
Soweto
Soweto (South-West Township) Group of black townships of more than a million people on the outskirts of
Johannesburg, South Africa. In June 1976, Soweto attracted international attention, when a student demonstration against the compulsory teaching of Afrikaans in Bantu schools sparked a series of riots against the
apartheid regime. The police brutally suppressed the disturbances, killing 618 people. Comprising mostly sub-standard government housing, it remained a focus of protest. Pop. (2000) 992,100.
Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.
|
SOWETO WHERE THE ROOTS OF RESISTANCE STRUGGLE FOR BREATHING ROOM
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/18/1990; ; 700+ words
; SOWETO, South Africa - Here, the living could join the dead any moment. For Soweto is the morning yawn of South Africa's ongoing...the freedom song. Four years ago, during the Soweto rent boycott, the police came, rolling through...
|
|
Soweto--the sleeping giant stirs: South Africa's biggest dormitory, Soweto--a sprawling, unorganised conurbation of dwellings--could soon become a thriving, proper city in its own right. Tom Nevin has the story.(SOUTH AFRICA)
Magazine article from: African Business; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; When South Western Townships (Soweto) was established in the 1950s as a dormitory...century and democratic change makes. Soweto nearly matches Johannesburg in terms of...and employment. And that's because Soweto is where over a million people sleep...
|
|
SOWETO SWINGS
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/14/1996; ; 700+ words
; Soweto. Those three troubled syllables trip off...around tortured necks. Rightly or wrongly, Soweto belongs, in the media-fuelled imag ination...exactly black and white. The equation in Soweto is slightly different: white doesn't...
|
 "The Sunday Independent (South Africa)")
|
Soweto rising; Turning a township into /a conventional suburb is no easy feat. However, /a plethora of exciting projects and developments are changing Soweto into /a desirable 'hood', /writes Mary Corrigall.(Life)
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Independent (South Africa); 2/4/2007; 700+ words
; Soweto has rarely been thought of as an enviable...live in. Since the first settlements in Soweto |in the early 1900s, it has been a neighbourhood...squalor and ramshackle corrugated tin shacks. Soweto wasn't designed to function as any other...
|
|
In Soweto, signs of good life rise from angry past
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 9/10/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...with that picture, well, something is.Soweto, after all, is famous as the hotbed...oppressors and oppressed alike. Say ''Soweto,'' and educated palates and Bavarian...opposite.''It is possible to gloss over Soweto's and South Africa's many problems...
|
|
Apartheid Puts Soweto on the Tourist Map; Bus Tour Draws Foreign Visitors, but Few S. Africans Go Along
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/18/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...excursion through the squalor and misery of Soweto, South Africa's largest and best...under virtual military occupation, the Soweto tour is entering its heyday-featured...foreign tourists on the excursions run by Soweto's black Municipal Council. "Most South...
|
|
|
For Tourists, Soweto's Good, Bad And Ugly; Township Offers Authenticity
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/9/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...homes for the middle class. "Welcome to Soweto," the guide said. This sprawling township...an authentic South African experience, Soweto's squatter camps, grassless lots and...neighborhood taverns are the places to visit. "Soweto: the good, the bad, and the ugly...
|
|
POLITICS-SOUTH AFRICA: SOWETO STILL A DEVELOPMENT NIGHTMARE
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 4/20/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Service English News Wire 04-20-1998 SOWETO, South Africa, Apr. 19 (IPS...old Themba Dhliwayo, who has lived in Soweto for the last 10 years. "But it is also...estimated four million people live in Soweto, South Africa's biggest township once...
|
|
A visit to Soweto should inspire all peace-loving people
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 9/8/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Straits Times 09-08-2002 A visit to Soweto should inspire all peace-loving people...me and several colleagues on a tour of Soweto, regarded by many as the soul of South...Development. After our assignment, a tour of Soweto was a must. Soweto is an acronym for...
|
 "The Saturday Star (South Africa)")
|
TOWNSHIP TALES; Soweto TV tubes issues to the people.(Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The Saturday Star (South Africa); 11/24/2007; 700+ words
; ...publicist Deon Botha advises. Welcome to Soweto TV: the station for and by residents...runs of one month each in 2005 and 2006, Soweto TV finally went on air for a year in July...mix of Zulu, English and Sotho that is Soweto's lingua franca. Housed in a former...
|
|
Soweto
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
Soweto ( So uth We stern To wnships) A sprawling...schoolchildren marched through the streets of Soweto on 16 June 1976, whereupon police opened...As a symbol of apartheid repression the Soweto revolt was commemorated annually by the...
|
|
Ramaphosa, Cyril 1952–
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
...grew up in the nearby black township of Soweto. Reflecting on his middle class upbringing...ditch by a white soldier who was occupying Soweto in the aftermath of the 1960 Sharpeville...education. He attended high school in Soweto, and at the age of 17 was sent to a boarding...
|
|
|
Mandela, Winnie 1934–
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
...a position at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, becoming the first black medical social...social worker at Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, Transvaal, South Africa, beginning...1985. Addresses: Home—Soweto, Transvaal, South Africa. who was one...
|
|
|
Nyanda, Siphiwe 1950–
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
...and death to do so. Born in 1950 in the Soweto area of Moroka, Nyanda was one of five...graduated from Orlando High School in Soweto in 1969. He studied at the University...x2026; Born May 22, 1950, in Moroka, Soweto, South Africa; son of Henry and Betsy...
|
|
|
Sheila Violet Makate Sisulu 1948–
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
...Southwestern Native Township known as Soweto. Her parents, a former salesman and factory seamstress, operated a store in Soweto. By the time Sisulu was five years old...was often done by candlelight, since Soweto had no electricity. Soon after Sisulu...
|
