Word: soweto
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...fashion label Stoned Cherrie I'd start with a picnic at the Cradle of Humankind?caves where some of the earliest human remains have been found. There's a game reserve and it's quite beautiful at that time of day. A trip to Wandie's bar, pictured, in Soweto may be a bit of a clich?, but it's still a must to sample township life. And then I'd end my night at the Horror Caf? in downtown Johannesburg, where some of the best undiscovered musicians play local hip-hop, ragga and soul. It's a young, mixed...
...fashion label Stoned Cherrie I'd start with a picnic at the Cradle of Humankind - caves where some of the earliest human remains have been found. There's a game reserve and it's quite beautiful at that time of day. A trip to Wandie's bar in Soweto[an error occurred while processing this directive] may be a bit of a cliché, but it's still a must to sample township life. And then I'd end my night at the Horror Café in downtown Johannesburg, where some of the best undiscovered musicians play local...
DIED. Ellen Kuzwayo, 91, prize-winning South African author and a founder of the antiapartheid movement; in Soweto. Imprisoned in 1977, she was later an advocate for the rights of women and helped launch the Urban Foundation to pressure the government to allow blacks to own homes. With her 1985 autobiography, Call Me Woman, she became the first black writer to win South Africa's prestigious CNA literary prize. In the country's first all-race elections in 1994, the African National Congress member won a seat in Parliament, where she served five years...
...DIED. Ellen Kuzwayo, 91, prominent prize-winning South African author; in Soweto. Imprisoned in 1977 for political protests, she shot to national fame as a women's-rights and anti-apartheid champion with her autobiography Call Me Woman, which made her the first black woman to win South Africa's CNA literary prize. In the country's first all-race elections in 1994, the African National Congress member won a seat in Parliament, where she served five years...
...deftly avoided offerings that include phrases like “The Matriarch of Snow, Fire, and Rain” or ones that bespeak academic fads that don’t quite find salience in Africa, like the paper on “Butch Lesbians’ Relationships in Contemporary Soweto.”Yet even engaging forums seemed, on reflection, peripheral. Such was the case with a panel marking the centenary of the Maji Maji Rebellion in German East Africa, when native rebels believed a magic potion would make them invulnerable to German bullets. (It didn?...