Soweto – Coming to a Town Near You?
Most of us will recall televised news reports from Apartheid era South Africa, of violent incidents in Soweto, the black township on the outskirts of Johannesburg. The reports telling more often than not, of some black-on-black violence, and showing crowds of emotionally charged black people, mostly women, dancing, clapping their hands and singing in expression of their grief over what has happened and presumably, in sorrow at their parlous situation. Heavily armed police officers would be seen…