Soweto   
[acronym for south-west townships], city (1991 pop. 596,632), located 10 mi (16 km) SW of Johannesburg , South Africa. Soweto grew as black workers came to the industrialized area after World War I; the name for the city was collective term for what was originally a group of segregated townships inhabited by blacks. In 1976, Soweto was the scene of a massive uprising that began as a student protest against the government's use of Afrikaans in black schools.

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"The Typewriter" - (1976)


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Here you see pictures of today's Soweto...

 

 

More photos wanted? Jurgen Schadeberg, the photographer of Soweto in pictures, set out to document and capture daily life in Soweto with his camera. Home to about four million people, the sprawling township is situated south of one of Africa’s great cities, Johannesburg. Soweto, an acronym for South Western Township, was formed in the early 1900s. During apartheid in the 1950s, the government used the township as a “dumping ground” for unwanted black settlements in so-called white suburbs.| Here these really excellent photographs can be seen |

This scene, showing a black woman walking in front of a billboard that serves as a memorial to the children killed by the military during the Soweto riot, is a stark reminder of the sacrifice that took place in South Africa during the uprising against Apartheid. Source

while a scene like the one below belongs to the past, finally

 

 

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