Soweto Map, South Africa

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Soweto Travel Guide

Also, funding to the area was limited and roads and sewers were not developed. Most of Soweto’s roads are merely unpaved dirt. Soweto was intended merely to house immigrant Black workers who toiled as domestic help or factory workers; it was never allowed to develop into a community. Legislation limited the inhabitants of Soweto to running general shops, and butcheries, maintaining local eating houses, or crafted... read more

Soweto History

The history of the south west region of Johannesburg became known as Soweto and was shaped by the displacement of Native Africans from other areas under Apartheid. Blacks came from all over Africa to South Africa to work in the rich mines that were discovered around 1886 and settled in the racially separate areas on the fringes of the city. read more