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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.
Category. v. t. e. 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 ...
Soweto ( / səˈwɛtoʊ, - ˈweɪt -, - ˈwiːt -/) [3] [4] is a township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for South Western Townships. [5]
The newspaper was the first in South Africa to place news rather than advertisements on the front page. A women's page was introduced in October 1932. The paper ran a beauty competition from November 1932 to March 1933, for which readers could vote. A favourite debate in the paper during the 1930s was what constituted the "African modern girl".
v. t. e. Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma ( Zulu: [geɮʱejiɬeˈkisa ˈzʱuma]; born 12 April 1942) is a South African politician who served as the fourth president of South Africa from 2009 to 2018. He is also referred to by his initials JZ and clan names Nxamalala and Msholozi.
Orlando Power Station. / 26.25389°S 27.92500°E / -26.25389; 27.92500. Orlando Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station in Soweto, South Africa. The power station was commissioned at the end of the Second World War and served Johannesburg for over 50 years.
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 ...
The New Nation was a leading anti-apartheid newspaper, published in South Africa between 1986–1997. It was unique in the period for having black owners and an almost entirely black staff. The newspaper was published on a weekly basis. It was an initiative of the SA Catholic Bishops Conference and activist-journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu who was ...