Article: Clive Glaser, Bo-Tsotsi: the youth gangs of Soweto, 1935-1976.(Book Review)

Article: Bo-Tsotsi: The Youth Gangs of Soweto, 1935-1976
Journal of Third World Studies;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Tsotsi: The Youth Gangs of Soweto, 1935-1976. Heinemann: Portsmouth, NH. 2000. 214 pp. Clive Glaser uses oral, archival and ephemeral ... townships, latterly known as Soweto. His study of tsotsis (a ... student relations during the Soweto uprisings of 1976. As apartheid ...

Article: SOWETO WHERE THE ROOTS OF RESISTANCE STRUGGLE FOR ...
The Boston Globe;  February 18, 1990 ;     700+ words ...SOWETO, South Africa - Here, the living could join the dead any moment. For Soweto is the morning yawn of South Africa's ongoing ... the freedom song. Four years ago, during the Soweto rent boycott, the police came, rolling through ...

Article: SOWETO SWINGS
The Independent - London;  January 14, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Soweto. Those three troubled syllables trip off ... around tortured necks. Rightly or wrongly, Soweto belongs, in the media-fuelled imag ination ... exactly black and white. The equation in Soweto is slightly different: white doesn't ...

Article: Soweto--the sleeping giant stirs: South Africa's biggest ...
African Business;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...When South Western Townships (Soweto) was established in the 1950s as a dormitory ... century and democratic change makes. Soweto nearly matches Johannesburg in terms of ... and employment. And that's because Soweto is where over a million people sleep ...

Article: Soweto rising; Turning a township into /a conventional ...
The Sunday Independent (South Africa);  February 4, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Soweto has rarely been thought of as an enviable ... live in. Since the first settlements in Soweto |in the early 1900s, it has been a neighbourhood ... squalor and ramshackle corrugated tin shacks. Soweto wasn't designed to function as any other ...

Article: In Soweto, signs of good life rise from angry past
International Herald Tribune;  September 10, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... with that picture, well, something is.Soweto, after all, is famous as the hotbed ... oppressors and oppressed alike. Say ''Soweto,'' and educated palates and Bavarian ... opposite.''It is possible to gloss over Soweto's and South Africa's many problems ...

Article: Apartheid Puts Soweto on the Tourist Map; Bus Tour Draws ...
The Washington Post;  April 18, 1987 ;     700+ words ... ... excursion through the squalor and misery of Soweto, South Africa's largest and best ... under virtual military occupation, the Soweto tour is entering its heyday-featured ... foreign tourists on the excursions run by Soweto's black Municipal Council. "Most South ...