2005-09-04 04:00:00 PDT Soweto, South Africa-- The woman in the doorway had a wide face and wider smile, a long, African- style skirt and a blue fleece sweatshirt. Before I could drop my overnight bag ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — For more than half a century, Soweto has been this country’s best-known black township, but strangely little has been known about it. This, perhaps, is not surprising, ...

Soweto is South Africa's biggest township: a dusty, sprawling city built in the 1930s to house black migrant workers. As symbolic of the struggle against apartheid as Robben Island, it lies hidden ...

SOWETO, South Africa — This ramshackle black township is (( not much to look at, but it has an epic story to tell. It was in this crucible of change that today’s democratic South Africa was forged.

South Africa's famous Soweto township has marked 100 years since its creation in a mood of optimism far removed from the days of apartheid. As part of the celebrations, residents and dignitaries ...

SOWETO, South Africa — The gleaming shopping mall has everything you could ask for: brand-name outlets such as Timberland and Puma, a garishly colored food court and a courtyard with one of those ...

Dive into the essence of Soweto's Meadowlands with this captivating look back at Kasi football and Gwijo music in 2016, a time when the grassroots football scene was not just a sport, but a pivotal ...

The Gauteng Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation has officially withdrawn its support for the Soweto Marathon.

JOHANNESBURG - Playwright, director and actor John Ledwaba gave up theatre during South Africa's turbulent 1980s and left his Soweto home to train to be an anti-apartheid guerrilla. But he soon ...

Soweto - At just 30 000 litres a month, Ndumiso Madlala's brewery produces as much beer as his biggest rival pumps out every six minutes. But that may be just enough to cause ripples in SABMiller's ...