Word: soweto
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...when, opposite the wooden shack used by Dark and Lovely Barbers on Old Potchefstroom Road and an abandoned shipping container that is the workshop for P. Maone Auto Electrical Repairs, he opens a $70 million, 700,000-sq.-ft. (65,000 sq m) steel-and-glass shopping mall in Soweto...
...with much of Maponya's life, the decision is as much political as financial. Soweto was created by the apartheid regime as a vast dormitory just over 19 miles (30 km) from Johannesburg city center (Soweto is short for South Western Township), where blacks would return each night to eat and sleep after another day of carefully controlled, low-paid work in the city. In the 1970s, this vast shanty town became a locus of revolution. After the end of apartheid, its tin shacks and dusty back alleys retained a reputation for poverty, unrest and crime. Maponya is undeterred. Poverty...
...charismatic leader’s death sparked outrage from Soweto to Harvard Yard, and during the spring of 1978 and the ensuing years, students began to demand that the University withdraw its investments in companies who worked in South Africa...
...Africa, already relatively low for a producer country, is dropping, as some 1 million whites have left the country over the past decade or so and as tastes have changed. Reversing that trend could take years, but it won't be for lack of effort. One Saturday night in Soweto, local businessmen and women, trendy professionals and giggling teenagers are sipping, swirling, sniffing and sometimes guzzling bottles in a gymnasium. It's the second annual Soweto Wine and Brandy Festival, designed to encourage the nation's black middle class to embrace wine. Such consumers splurge on luxury cars, clothes...
...Fourways in the north. You can eat or have a drink at the Kitchen Bar, which is divided into a restaurant at the bottom and a club area at the top. It's new so it's still fun. If you want good African food, head to Nambitha in Soweto. It has a vibe you can't quite get anywhere else, very friendly...