Apartheid Museum

A day in Soweto

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November 1st 2005
I couldn't leave South Africa without visiting Soweto. Since 1980, when a wave of uprisings was in the news, Soweto has been in my mind. Those events even inspired my first decent song (words and music) for my teenage band (the evidence currently resides in a green folder in my mothers attic, along with the rest of my erstwhile musical career). Soweto is big. In fact it is big enoug ... read more

Africa » South Africa

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more