Soweto - Rich Culture and Heritage in South Africa's Largest Township
South Africa's most prominent township, Soweto, is a place of tremendous contrasts. The area has the only street in the world where two Nobel Peace Prize winners once lived. It is the richest townships in South Africa, but this is also contrasted by some of the most desperate poverty. It is also the most political township and has played a major role in the history of South Africa
Soweto is enormous, stretching as far as the eye can see, with estimates of its populace ranging between three and four million. Like any city of that size, it is divided into a number of different suburbs, with unashamedly middle- and upper-class neighborhoods among them. At first sight, it appears an endless jumble of houses and shacks. Once inside, parts of it have a village feel, especially if you are exploring on foot, and unlike any where else in Johannesburg, Sowetans will often stop to welcome you or to make conversation, despite your color.
Most of Soweto's tourist highlights are famous for historical reasons and are physically unimposing. That history, however, is action-packed, not least because here it is told with perspective and context rarely found in the rest of South Africa. For visitors it means an insight not just into a place famous from 1980's news bulletins for funerals and fighting, but into a way of life most Westerners have seldom, if ever, encountered.
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2010-08-30 21:19:17
ay no man..umlazi is the biggest township followd by mdantsane
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2010-08-11 09:53:37
all these people that are hating, wish they were from soweto..nxah.. vele soweto is not a township its a town itself. kasi la ma kasi, which cannot be compared to any. dankie kas-lami!!!!
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2010-08-10 09:19:37
SOSHANGUVE is the biggest township in Mzansi. Hola SOSHA hola. if you disagree press NO.
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2010-06-22 11:04:11
i dnt think itsfair that they are spending billions to biuld a football stadium when only 2 miles down the raods they are struggerling to find food its pertetic!
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2010-06-21 15:21:07
i think when mabopane and soshanguve can combine they can make the biggest township in sa
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2010-05-18 11:47:01
@DavidP Clearly u knw a certain parts in Soweto SOweto is a Township if u say its nt a township, wat is it to?
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2010-03-26 12:24:10
if the south western townships of jhb would be separated...whereby each one of them would stand on its own, that would simply means that Mdantsane is the Biggest township eMzantsi
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2010-03-18 10:34:17
I think its Soweto then Mdantsane and Thembisa
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2010-02-18 11:56:42
of course it is Soweto or so where to or south western town.It has a lot of history and it has 2 noble prize winners in one location and street namely vilakazi street in Orlando West.Do not forget the memorial stone of Hector Pieterson also in Orlando west.
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2010-01-12 13:33:14
I don't think soweto is the biggest township in South Africa because it consits of smaller townships, not blocks. like Soshanguve, the township has blocks, i.e block 'H', block 'K' etc, while soweto townships have thier own blocks or zones, so to say. Like diepkloof; it has zone 1 to zone 6. I mean, it's a township on its own, like soshanguve. therefore, i don't think soweto in laggest because it's one a township, but many little townships grouped together.
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