Mantombi Msibi (67) of Meadowlands and her family of nine were among the victims of last week’s floods that devastated parts of Soweto.
Despite heavy rain, there has been no more flooding in Soweto, Johannesburg Emergency Management Services said on Sunday.
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/ 28 February 2009
Clean-up and repair operations were under way in Soweto on Saturday after the area was hit by heavy flooding this week.
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/ 27 February 2009
Parts of Soweto have been declared disaster areas after flash floods hit the township overnight, the Gauteng provincial government said on Friday.
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/ 27 February 2009
About 200 families were left homeless, two people were dead, and three others missing, after heavy rains and floods ravaged Soweto.
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/ 27 February 2009
Two girls, six and 15, died in floods in Soweto on Thursday, Johannesburg emergency services said.
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/ 22 February 2009
Congress of the People (Cope) deputy president, Mbhazima Shilowa on Saturday called on ANC members to vote for the newly formed party.
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/ 6 February 2009
In a Soweto tennis centre paid for by Arthur Ashe, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga took time this week to help coach children who dream of being champions.
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/ 12 December 2008
Soweto’s two oldest main roads are to be renamed after anti-apartheid struggle leaders next week, it was reported on Friday.
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/ 11 December 2008
Police are investigating reports of a pornographic website with nude pictures of young girls from Soweto, it was reported on Thursday.
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/ 20 October 2008
Twelve-year-old Jabu Shabalala issued an ultimatum to his mother while driving past a group of children on horseback in Soweto.
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/ 16 October 2008
It’s been 11 years since Weigh-Less opened a branch in Dobsonville. The first was opened in Soweto at Baragwanath in the 1980s.
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/ 10 October 2008
Bongani Mwelase, the reigning national welterweight champion, believes he is the best technical knockout boxer the country has produced.
Johannesburg mayor Amos Masondo unveiled a multimillion-rand public transport facility in Soweto on Thursday.
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/ 21 September 2008
Three years ago Gauteng administrators asked a group of really smart people to look into the economic potential of Soweto.
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/ 19 September 2008
Forty-five Soweto school pupils were hospitalised with food poisoning on Friday, said Johannesburg emergency services.
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/ 9 September 2008
The Johannesburg High Court has granted the City of Johannesburg leave to appeal against its ruling on a pre-paid water system in Soweto.
Lynley Donnelly talks to Mandla Sibeko, owner of the second Pick n Pay store in Soweto.
In one Mpumalanga township, the streets are dominated by women on bikes. So where are the women in cycle races?
Sello S Alcock and photographer Oupa Nkosi spent a night out on the town to bring readers the highs and lows of Soweto’s social scene.
Blaming others for why black people don’t swim is unfair. The blame lies with mothers who forbade their children from learning the skill.
The FNB Stadium is on track to meet its 2010 deadline, but the surroundings need work, reports Lynley Donnelly.
Thrill-seekers get a unique view of Soweto from two 100m-high cooling towers — especially when they swing by a rope far above the ground.
All Africans must speak out about injustices in places like Zimbabwe, Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf said on Saturday in Soweto.
Some Kliptown residents plan to protest against poor service delivery when Nelson Mandela pays them a birthday visit on Saturday.
A Soweto petrol attendant was killed on Sunday by customers who refused to pay for their petrol, Gauteng police said.
Two men are expected to appear in the Protea Magistrate’s Court on Monday for allegedly breaking into a clinic and stealing medicine.
The story of the late Onkgopotse Tiro is told in a brooding documentary by Steve Mokwena called <i>A Blues for Tiro</i>.
Twenty years into the pandemic, people are looking for new ways to live with HIV and, for some, alternative medicine has become part of the answer.
If you build it, they will come. When City of Johannesburg councillor Bongani Zondi looked at Soweto’s Arthur Ashe tennis courts, he didn’t see dusty tarmac and frayed nets. In his mind, a library stood there, welcoming Sowetans to a world of books and knowledge.
It is Saturday in Soweto and the Aids-ridden township is geared up for its foremost weekend activity: funerals. Traffic officials are dispatched en masse to the major streets where the sheer number of funeral processions would render chaos if one had to rely on traffic lights alone. ”Nowadays young people are dying like flies,” reflects 27-year-old Modise Selebogo.
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/ 21 November 2007
Lazarus Tlhahane (69), a grandfather seven times over, is hoping to be adopted. He owns one of the 15 makeshift stalls that have sprung up across the road from the Soccer City stadium in Soweto. From his stall Lazarus serves up plates of pap and stew to some of the site’s 1Â 600 construction workers.