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The Sowetan is an English-language South African daily newspaper that started in 1981 as a liberation struggle newspaper and was freely distributed to households in the then apartheid-segregated township of Soweto, Johannesburg, Gauteng Province. It is one of the largest national newspapers in South Africa.
Apartheid. The Soweto uprising (or Soweto riots) was a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa during apartheid that began on the morning of 16 June 1976. [1] Students from various schools began to protest in the streets of the Soweto township in response to the introduction of Afrikaans, considered by ...
Soweto TV programming is mostly Sowetan content as per ICASA's regulations of over 60% local content. The Sowetan newspaper has a readership of around 1.6 million. Kasibiz Mahala is a free community magazine that promotes local small businesses established in 2012. Nelson Mandela National Museum Museums, monuments and memorials
2022 Soweto shootings. On 9 July 2022, a mass shooting took place at a tavern in Orlando, Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa. 16 people were killed in the incident. [2] [3] At about 21:00 GMT, a group of men armed with rifles and a 9mm pistol opened fire on patrons in the tavern. A total of 23 people were shot. 12 people were killed at the scene and ...
The World merged with Ilanga lase Natal (Natal Sun) in 1935, under Selope-Thema's editorship. Ilanga lase Natal was a Zulu-language newspaper founded in 1903 by John Langalibalele Dube in Durban. The staff of the combined newspaper included Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo (1903-1956), Zulu educationist, author, poet, playwright, and former ...
Tsotsitaal and Camtho. Creolized by 1930, used until ca. 1980. [1] Now L2 only. Tsotsitaal is a South African vernacular dialect derived from a variety of mixed languages mainly spoken in the townships of Gauteng province (such as Soweto, Soshanguve, Tembisa ), but also in other agglomerations all over South Africa.
2002 Soweto bombings. The 2002 Soweto bombings were a string of terrorist attacks that occurred in Soweto in South Africa 's Gauteng province. Eight blasts took place on 30 October 2002, leaving one woman dead and her husband severely injured. One of the blasts severely damaged a mosque, while others targeted railways and petrol stations in the ...
Orlando. / -26.241; 27.917. Orlando is a township in the urban area of Soweto, South Africa. The township was founded in 1931 and named after Edwin Orlando Leake, mayor of Johannesburg from 1925 to 1926. It is divided in two main areas: Orlando West and Orlando East.