Crossword clues for soweto
soweto
- South African region
- Site of a 1976 anti-apartheid uprising
- Area of South Africa
- Township adjoining Johannesburg
- South African uprising site
- Johannesburg section
- South African rebellion site
- Site of South African riots in 1976
- Site of a protest against the Afrikaans Medium Decree
- Region near Johannesburg
- Protest site of 1976
- Predominantly black section of Johannesburg
- Johannesburg neighborhood much in the news during apartheid
- Johannesburg district
- Historic Johannesburg township
- 1976 African uprising site
- "Sarafina!" setting
- 1976 rebellion site
- Site of a 1976 uprising
- Site of 1970's marches
- 1976 uprising site
- Part of Johannesburg
- Site of a 1976 South African uprising
- Johannesburg township
- Johannesburg area
- A large collection of African townships southwest of Johannesburg in South Africa
- Inhabited solely by Black Africans
- Townships near Johannesburg
- South African township
- Township outside Johannesburg
- Black township near Johannesburg
- Very humid round part of South Africa
- Very damp old township in South Africa
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
black African community outside Johannesburg, South Africa, formed from first letters of South Western Townships. Related: Sowetan.
Wikipedia
Soweto is a township 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. Formerly a separate municipality, it is now incorporated in the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Suburbs of Johannesburg.
Soweto is the debut album led by American jazz drummer Billy Higgins recorded in 1979 and released on the Italian Red label.
Usage examples of "soweto".
We had come to a Soweto of stalls crammed just before the bridge that spanned the old Grand Union Canal.
It had been crippled by the arrest of Nelson Mandela and his colleagues in the early sixties but revived after the Soweto riots in 1976.