We hear from Prophet at the Credo Mutwa Cultural Village, an outdoor museum tucked in a hillside park in the Jabavu section of Soweto. The village is named after its creator, an artist, author and...
Another recent Sowetan triumph is the Maponya Mall. With more than 180 tenants and 1.5 million monthly visitors, it's Soweto's first major upmarket retail space. It was built by Richard Maponya, an entrepreneur who bought...
I've just returned from spending ten days touring South Africa as one of nine U.S. bloggers who were brought in to write about the experience.
While the country certainly left an impression on us, we left...
Bill Harrop’s “Original” Balloon Safaris has been operating as a legally licensed balloon Air Transport Service since 1981. It is a family business run by Bill Harrop, his wife Mary, and daughter Sarah working in...
I walked through Soweto at night earlier this week, the township most whites feared and dared go near when I lived here in 1984 and again almost ten years later - before the first free...
South African International Marketing Council's (Brand South Africa) Simon Barber sings Rikiti Tikiti Tin on a blogger bus through South Africa....
Hector Pieterson in the arms of Mbuyisa Nkita Makhubu, his sister, Antoinette Musi, running alongside. Photo by Sam Nzima, 1976.
My good friend Sameer at WITNESS is leading an online conversation in commemoration of today’s 60th...
Graeme Addison, a South African journalist who was on the scene at the Soweto uprising of June 16, 1976, tells us what he saw that day. Graeme speaks from the site of the Hector...
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