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The Sowetan is an English-language South African daily newspaper that started in 1981 as a liberation struggle newspaper and was freely distributed to households in the then apartheid-segregated township of Soweto, Johannesburg, Gauteng Province. It is one of the largest national newspapers in South Africa.
The Soweto uprising, also known as the Soweto riots, was a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa during apartheid that began on the morning of 16 June 1976.
Soweto TV programming is mostly Sowetan content as per ICASA's regulations of over 60% local content. The Sowetan newspaper has a readership of around 1.6 million. [55] Kasibiz Mahala is a free community magazine that promotes local small businesses established in 2012. Nelson Mandela National Museum
Aggrey Zola Klaaste OMSG (6 January 1940 – 19 June 2004) was a South African newspaper journalist and editor.He was best known for being editor of the Soweto-based newspaper, the Sowetan, from 1988 to 2002.
Frontpage of "Die Afrikaanse Patriot" (1876), a newspaper in an early form of the Afrikaans language. This is a list of newspapers in South Africa.. In 2017, there were 22 daily and 25 weekly major urban newspapers in South Africa, mostly published in English or Afrikaans. [1]
The Soweto Civic Association was an organisation formed in Soweto, South Africa, in 1979, formed out of what was known as the "Committee of Ten", by black professionals who wished to administer the city's affairs by themselves and not by an Apartheid representative local administration board officials and councillors.
She left the Herald and Weekend Post at the end of February 2020, to take up a job a editor of the Sowetan on 1 March 2020. [1] Immediately after arrival she had to cope with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic , changing technological processes and managing the pandemic's economic and political impact on the newspaper.
The Sowetan said that she was a political ally of Limpopo Premier Stan Mathabatha. [7] Nkadimeng's mayoral term was marred by political difficulties. She twice stood unsuccessfully for election as regional chairperson of the ANC's Peter Mokaba branch in Capricorn District, losing to Motalane Monakedi in October 2014 and to John Mpe in July 2018.