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Soweto

black African community outside Johannesburg, South Africa, formed from first letters of South Western Townships. Related: Sowetan.

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Soweto

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 (album)

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.