Soweto Pride began in 2008 and East Rand Pride in 2009.

The story takes place in 1976, around the Soweto Riots, during the Apartheid system that lasted from 1948 until 1994.

And yet no significant changes took place to reform the apartheid system until the Soweto riots in 1976.

People there work at nearby towns it is a very warm place in Soweto

* Third Wave ( band ), a South African hip hop crew based in Meadowlands, Soweto

In 1955, when Sophiatown was dismantled, the family moved to Meadowlands in Soweto.

On 9 February 1955, 2 000 policemen, armed with handguns, rifles and clubs known as knobkierries, forcefully moved the black families of Sophiatown to Meadowlands, Soweto.

Its neighbours to the west were Region 10 ( the Diepkloof / Meadowlands region of Soweto ) and Region 11 ( Ennerdale / Orange Farm ).

It lies to the west of Meadowlands, a part of Diepmeadow, and is adjacent to Mofolo North and Zondi, which are suburbs of Soweto on its southern border.

The 1976 All Blacks tour of South Africa went ahead, and the Springboks won by three Tests to one, but coming shortly after the Soweto riots the tour attracted international condemnation and 28 countries boycotted the 1976 Summer Olympics in protest, and the next year, in 1977, the Commonwealth signed the Gleneagles Agreement, which discouraged any sporting contact with South Africa.

The award was presented to the Soweto Gospel Choir for the second consecutive year.

* 16 June – Hector Pieterson, a 12 year old boy, killed by police in Soweto

In 1976, the Afrikaans Medium Decree of 1974, which forced all black schools to use both Afrikaans and English as languages of instruction beginning with the last year of primary school, led to the Soweto Uprising in which more than 575 people died, at least 134 of them under the age of eighteen.

Orlando Pirates is one of South Africa ’ s oldest football clubs being formed in 1937 in Orlando East, Soweto.

The Soweto derby between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates is one of the most fiercely contested derbies in world soccer.

To date only Soweto TV has a class licence, while Cape Town TV has applied for one.

For example, Simon " Mahlathini " Nkabinde, one of the most well-known mbaqanga singers ( and arguably the most famous mbaqanga " groaner ", nicknamed the " lion of Soweto "), died a poor man.

These included the masterpiece, " Mannenberg " ( renamed " Capetown Fringe " in its US release ), one of South Africa's popular musical compositions, " Black Lightning ", " African Herbs " and " Soweto Is Where It Is At ", sounds that mirrored and spoke of the defiance in the streets and townships of South Africa.

* 22 April – A guerrilla ambushes a municipal police vehicle and wounds four policemen and one civilian in Soweto

* 12 November – Two limpet mines explode and a third one is safely detonated by police at the Zola Municipal offices in Soweto

The area is serviced by one highway, namely the N1 Western Bypass which connects the vicinity to Sandton and Pretoria to the north and to Roodepoort and Soweto to the south.

It became one of the first museums in Soweto when it opened in 16 June 2002.

The Nelson Mandela National Museum is one of the largest tourist attractions in Soweto, South Africa.

Founded in 1947, Swallows are considered as one of the original Soweto clubs together with Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs.

Albertina Sisulu testified before the commission about the Mandela United Football Club, a gang linked to Mandela's then-wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, accused of terrorizing Soweto in the 1980s.

It includes the vast urban areas of the East and West Rand, and Soweto.

The case for including the East and West Rand in Johannesburg, as well as Soweto, is based on a number of factors:

* The East Rand and Soweto campuses of the former Vista University are incorporated into the University of Johannesburg.

Sono was born in the township of Orlando East in Soweto, near Johannesburg.

The University of Johannesburg, established on 1 January 2005, is the result of the incorporation of the East Rand and Soweto campuses of Vista University into the Rand Afrikaans University ( RAU ) ( 1 January 2004 ).

As a Producer / Director on Tonight, This Week and TV Eye, Blair covered domestic and foreign political and economic stories including the first programme about the 1976 Soweto uprising for British television, There Is No Crisis !, and coverage of wars in the Middle East, Cambodia and Angola.

* 16 August – Two Limpet mines destroy the second and third floors of the building houseing the " South African Police HQ Soweto East " in Roodepoort.

Born in the Orlando East section of Soweto, Motaung first played professional soccer at the age of 16, for the Orlando Pirates.

Image: Regina mundi church, soweto. JPG | The Regina Mundi church in East Soweto

The neighbourhood is divided into a number of villages, including Kianda, Soweto East, Gatwekera, Kisumu Ndogo, Lindi, Laini Saba, Siranga, Makina and Mashimoni.

Kibera is divided into 13 villages, including Kianda, Soweto East, Gatwekera, Kisumu Ndogo, Lindi, Laini Saba, Siranga, Makina and Mashimoni.

The population of the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Area was 7, 151, 447, and including suburban regions such as Ekurhuleni, the West Rand, Soweto and Lenasia brings the overall population to 10, 267, 700 ( as of 2007 ).

* Roodepoort, always traditionally part of the West Rand, was incorporated into the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in 2000, while Soweto, always regarded as Johannesburg's sister city or major township during Apartheid, was administered as part of the West Rand in the past.

The interchanges with which it coincides are ( from south to north ): Rand Show Road, Soweto Highway, ( soon to be an interchange with the N17 highway ), Maraisburg Road, Gordon Road, 14th Avenue, Beyers Naudé Drive, Malibongwe Drive, William Nicol Drive, and Rivonia Road.

* 7 January – A bomb damages the office of the West Rand Administration Board in Soweto

* 12 May – Another bomb damages the office of the West Rand Administration Board in Soweto for the second time