Guitarist Lerato Lichaba dreams of a place where artists can network and create away from the media glare.
The University of Johannesburg has set up a school in Soweto to teach children and student teachers.
The 40th anniversary of June ’76 is the right time to honour artists who helped shape the new SA, writes Bhekizizwe Peterson.
Soweto, Time of Wrath is an unfiltered portrait of the raw realities of post-apartheid South Africa.
Thousands of young people are learning about life and art by joining field bands around the country.
A walk along a road in Soweto’s oldest suburb will lead you to a cradle of heritage sites.
Electricity thieves are using cunning methods to ply their trade that not even the police or Eskom can prevent.
The "Next Stop Soweto" series continues with the album, Volume 4, which features local music from 1975 to 1985.
Their status as asylum seekers makes it difficult for shop owners from Ethiopia, Somalia and Bengal to get licences and operate legally.
Another looting and torching incident has occurred, this time in the Alexandra township, with looters fleeing once police arrived.
In a xenophobic atmosphere ripe for political exploitation, only a few stand to lose as much as foreign nationals.
Lawyers for Human Rights says it is dissapointed by the "disregard for human life" during this week’s violence in Soweto.
13 people were arrested overnight for looting in Kagiso, on the West Rand, and police say the situation is calm in Soweto after a week of unrest.
Foreign shopkeepers displaced during riots in Soweto were urged by some residents to quickly make their way out. Two people have died in the unrest.
Two people have died and a foreign-owned shop burnt in Soweto since violence broke out between community members on Monday.
Soweto residents owe Eskom R3.6bn in unpaid power bills they don’t ever intend to pay, compared to R2.6bn owed by the rest of the country.
Two men have been arrested following the shooting of a 13-year-old girl in Protea Glen.
What happened to the pupil carrying Hector Pieterson in the photo that epitomises June 16 1976? The trail leads to Canada, but hope is fading.
Hundreds of DA supporters marched through the streets of Soweto to protests the banning of the party’s advert by the SABC.
Road closures and public transport disruptions will mean residents of Soweto and greater Gauteng could struggle to get to work on Tuesday.
As the world mourns Nelson Mandela, we speak to locals in Vilakazi Street, Soweto – Madiba’s former home.
A new entrepreneurial initiative in stores links artisans with people who need their services.
Durban-born artist Okmalumkoolkat is as obsessed with pushing the city’s dance styles as he is in bringing its gqom life to the world.
Street committees have found their way back into contemporary politics after being instrumental in the demise of apartheid, writes Manqoba Nxumalo.
Interest in TEDx Soweto – now in its fourth year – is growing, but organisers say it could be even bigger.
Taking care of disabled children takes a special kind of person. But caregivers at centres such as Eyethu are not receiving the training they need.
Even with competition from large retailers, small businesses thrive in Soweto, which appears to accord with strategies in the ANC-supported NDP.
Furious Soweto residents have vowed to make the township ungovernable until the Premier of Gauteng addresses them on poor service delivery.
The Adelaide Tambo School for the Physically Challenged in Soweto was established in 1980 under the name of JC Merkin.
Residents of Soweto are preparing to welcome US President Barack Obama as a "fellow African".
Nelson Mandela has been honoured with a rousing memorial-like glow of candle-lights in a vigil in Vilakazi Street, Soweto.
The calm prevailing at Dube Hostel hinges on whether the electricity problems it is experiencing can be fixed for good, according to hostel leaders.