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  1. Soweto is an urban area of the city of Johannesburg in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for South Western Townships.

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    The City Council settled for the acronym SOWETO (South West Townships). The name Soweto was first used in 1963 and within a short period of time, following the 1976 uprising of students in the township, the name became internationally known.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soweto

    SOWETO Abbreviation. 1. Soweto. South-Western Townships + 1 variant. World, Society, Government. World, Society, Government. 1. Soweto. South Western Townships.

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    It is where the police killed at least 176 protesting schoolchildren during the Soweto Uprising of 1976, and where residents refused to pay the white government for rent, electricity and water during boycotts in the 1980s. To the outside world, Soweto stood for black solidarity.
    Soweto is credited as one of the founding places for Kwaito and Kasi rap, which is a style of hip hop specific to South Africa. This form of music, which combined many elements of house music, American hip-hop, and traditional African music, became a strong force amongst black South Africans. Early Career
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    Soweto was created in the 1930s when the White government started separating Blacks from Whites, creating black "townships". Blacks were moved away from Johannesburg, to an area separated from White suburbs by a so-called cordon sanitaire (or sanitary corridor) which was usually a river, railway track, industrial area or highway.
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    In 1929, with the pressures of influx of African people to Johannesburg, the removal of African people from the whites-only designated residential areas became a priority for the council. So began a process of segregation and removals to the area now known as Soweto.
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    So·we·to
    [səˈwedō]
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    1. a large urban area, consisting of several townships, in South Africa southwest of Johannesburg. In 1976 demonstrations against the compulsory use of Afrikaans in schools resulted in violent police activity and the deaths of hundreds of people.
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    from So(uth) We(stern) To(wnships).
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    Soweto - Wikipedia

    Soweto 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. Formerly a separate municipality, it is now incorporated in the City of Johannesburg … See more

    George Harrison and George Walker are today credited as the men who discovered an outcrop of the Main Reef of gold on the farm Langlaagte in February 1886. The fledgling town of … See more

    The suburb was not historically allowed to create employment centres within the area, so almost all of its residents are commuters to other … See more

    The area is mostly composed of old "matchbox" houses, or four-room houses built by the government, that were built to provide cheap … See more

    By 2003, the Greater Soweto area consisted of 87 townships grouped together into Administrative Regions 6 and 10 of Johannesburg.
    Estimates of how many residential areas make up Soweto itself vary widely. Some counts say that … See more

    Landmarks
    Soweto landmarks include:
    Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, … See more

    Media
    Being part of the urban agglomerations of Gauteng, Soweto shares much of the same media as the rest of Gauteng province. There are … See more

    Many parts of Soweto rank among the poorest in Johannesburg, although individual townships tend to have a mix of wealthier and poorer residents. In general, households in the … See more

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    WebIt was only in 1963 that it adopted the name Soweto, an acronym for South Western Townships. It’s a place of contrasts: with mansions, and almost over the road, overcrowded iron shanties.

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