The Beating Heart of South Africa’s Bustling City Life Explore Soweto: A Township Transformed Into a Cultural Powerhouse ...

JOHANNESBURG - Playwright, director and actor John Ledwaba gave up theatre during South Africa's turbulent 1980s and left his Soweto home to train to be an anti-apartheid guerrilla. But he soon ...

2005-09-04 04:00:00 PDT Soweto, South Africa-- The woman in the doorway had a wide face and wider smile, a long, African- style skirt and a blue fleece sweatshirt. Before I could drop my overnight bag ...

SOWETO, South Africa -- The tour van pulls up, and the guide sweeps his hand toward a view of squatter camps crowded with rusted tin shacks and open-air markets where folk remedies for AIDS are sold ...

Most days in Soweto you’ll see tourist buses rolling through the streets. People peer out of the windows at local neighbourhoods, stop off to visit Nelson Mandela’s home, and possibly browse a few ...

Forty years ago, the streets of the Soweto township in South Africa's economic capital Johannesburg turned bloody. Thousands of mostly black students lined the streets, refusing to go to school until ...

Dive into the essence of Soweto's Meadowlands with this captivating look back at Kasi football and Gwijo music in 2016, a time when the grassroots football scene was not just a sport, but a pivotal ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — For more than half a century, Soweto has been this country’s best-known black township, but strangely little has been known about it. This, perhaps, is not surprising, ...

My South African counterpart ended up being overcome and could not stay in the museum any longer, with the story being too real close to home, considering apartheid only ended in 1994. I could hardly ...