ZAF: Life in Soweto

SOWETO, SOUTH AFRICA - DECEMBER 27: A youth dancing the kwaito dance during a music festival on December 27, 2004 in the Meadowlands section of Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. Kwaito was born in the townships, a music style similar to American Hip-Hop and most of the big artists are from Soweto. It is South Africa's largest township and it was founded about one hundred years to make housing available for black people south west of downtown Johannesburg. The estimated population is between 2-3 million. Many key events during the Apartheid struggle unfolded here, and the most known is the student uprisings in June 1976, where thousands of students took to the streets to protest after being forced to study the Afrikaans language at school. Soweto today is a mix of old housing and newly constructed townhouses. A new hungry black middle-class is growing steadily. Most residents work in Johannesburg but the last years many shopping malls has been built, and people are starting to spend their money in Soweto. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)
SOWETO, SOUTH AFRICA - DECEMBER 27: A youth dancing the kwaito dance during a music festival on December 27, 2004 in the Meadowlands section of Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. Kwaito was born in the townships, a music style similar to American Hip-Hop and most of the big artists are from Soweto. It is South Africa's largest township and it was founded about one hundred years to make housing available for black people south west of downtown Johannesburg. The estimated population is between 2-3 million. Many key events during the Apartheid struggle unfolded here, and the most known is the student uprisings in June 1976, where thousands of students took to the streets to protest after being forced to study the Afrikaans language at school. Soweto today is a mix of old housing and newly constructed townhouses. A new hungry black middle-class is growing steadily. Most residents work in Johannesburg but the last years many shopping malls has been built, and people are starting to spend their money in Soweto. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)
ZAF: Life in Soweto
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December 27, 2004
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