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    Soweto (/səˈwɛtoʊ, -ˈweɪt-, -ˈwiːt-/) is a township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • Soweto is a township of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Soweto may also refer to: Soweto (album) a 1979 album by Billy Higgins "Soweto" (song), a...
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    The Soweto Derby is a football rivalry between Premier Soccer League's Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates in South Africa. It was first contested on 24...
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  • "Soweto" is a 2022 song by Nigerian singer Victony and producer Tempoe. It was released as the first single from Victony's second extended play Outlaw...
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    Soweto Kinch (born 10 January 1978) is a British jazz saxophonist and rapper. Born in 1978 in London, England, to a Barbadian father, playwright Don Kinch...
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    Soweto Community Television (Soweto TV) is a South African community television channel broadcasting in the biggest township in South Africa, Soweto. The...
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  • The Soweto String Quartet is a string quartet from Soweto in South Africa composed of Reuben Khemese, Makhosini Mnguni, Sandile Khemese and Thami Khemese...
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  • Surfing Soweto is a 2010 documentary film directed by Sara Blecher. Surfing Soweto is the story of a forgotten generation: Bitch Nigga, Lefa and Mzembe...
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  • The Indestructible Beat of Soweto, later repackaged as The Indestructible Beat of Soweto Volume One, is a compilation album released in 1985 on the Earthworks...
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  • Lelethu Mdolomba (born 21 January 1985), known professionally as Samthing Soweto, is a South African singer and songwriter. Samthing is best known for his...
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    Diepkloof is a large zone of Soweto township in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It is also sometimes referred to as Diepmeadow, if considered as...
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  • Witwatersrand (TWR) and the Soweto and East Rand campuses of Vista University. Prior to the merger, the Daveyton and Soweto campuses of the former Vista...
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  • Hector Pieterson (category Soweto)
    South African schoolboy who was shot and killed at the age of 12 during the Soweto uprising, when the police opened fire on black students protesting the enforcement...
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  • "the system". It eventually sparked a confrontation on 16 June 1976 in the Soweto uprising, when Black children marched to protest both linguistic imperialism...
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    1970s until 1994, Soweto is now part of the Greater Johannesburg metropolitan area. An acronym for "South-Western Townships", Soweto was organised initially...
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  • The Soweto Civic Association was an organisation formed in Soweto, South Africa, in 1979, formed out of what was known as the "Committee of Ten", by black...
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    The Soweto Gospel Choir is a South African gospel group. The Soweto Gospel Choir was formed in Soweto, South Africa, by David Mulovhedzi and Beverly Bryer...
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    a "reign of terror", and was "at the centre of an orgy of violence" in Soweto, which led to condemnation by the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa...
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  • Soweto East is a part of Kibera slum in Nairobi. Its population has been estimated at 70,000 persons. Slum residents have to pay more than others for water...
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  • Orlando Pirates F.C. (category Soweto)
    Buccaneers") is a South African professional football club based in Orlando, Soweto that plays in the top-tier system of Football in South Africa known as DStv...
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  • Stadium. The team has a strong local rivalry with Orlando Pirates, a fellow Soweto team that Chiefs founder Kaizer Motaung played for in his early playing...
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  • organisation of South African school students, best known for its role in the 1976 Soweto uprising. By 1976 it was strongly identified with the Black Consciousness...
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  • Phiri is a township in the urban area of Soweto in South Africa. The township was founded in 1956, as part of the demographic reorganization started by...
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    Asheru (redirect from Sleepless in Soweto)
    Docktrine 3 (The Final Chapter)... Asheru, various artists (2010) Sleepless in Soweto LP.... Asheru (2013) "WHILE THEY SLEEP (REMIX)". ASCAP. American Society...
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  • 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. At about 21:00...
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  • Moroka Swallows F.C. (category Soweto)
    football club based in Soweto, Johannesburg, in the Gauteng province. Founded in 1947, Swallows are one of the original two Soweto clubs, together with...
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  • Soweto East is a part of major Kibera slum in Nairobi. A school KidStar Academy is in Soweto West. Other parts of Kibera include Soweto East, Laini Saba...
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  • the Cannes Film Festival. The plot focuses on students involved in the Soweto Uprising, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language...
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