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Soweto had its origins in the Johannesburg goldrush. Many people looking for work flocked to the area, and those that could not find work in the mines, also had to find other means of housing. During the 1905 outbreak of bubonic plague, the area was utilised to relocate blacks from the centre of Johannesburg. In 1923 Soweto was declared a ghetto for the black population of Johannesburg by the infamous "Urban Areas Act".

Starting about 15 km away from the centre of Johannesburg, it covers about 63 square km, with an estimated population of thee million people. I is a city of contrasts: luxurious mansions across the road from tin shacks, green fields and watercourses around the corner from heaps of garbage, the world's biggest public hospital with the world's highest HIV infection rate, and a friendliness that conceals a high unemployment rate.

Although the government had a housing program to build hundreds of thousands of plain two-room houses here, the illegal squatter camps kept on growing and spreading. Still Soweto is by no means only an accumulation of tin shacks. There are also better suburbs and a large number of social institutions like schools and hospitals.

There are three types of transport in the township: minibus taxis, buses and trains. Most people take taxis because they are fast and cheap and stop anywhere, while still regarding them as dangerous.

Places to of interest:

  • African Institute of Art & Funda Community Centre
  • EKhaya Soweto Neighbourhood Museum
  • Hector Petersen Square
  • Nelson Mandela's House
  • Regina Mundi Church
  • Freedom Square
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The hotel is located at the Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication, situated at the corner of Main Road and Union Avenue, in Kliptown, Soweto. The Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication is a National Heritage Site, where an authentic African market of...
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