Soweto is South Africa’s largest township. Established in the 1930s south of Johannesburg, it currently has roughly 1.7m inhabitants. It has a rich political history, and is the location where 3,000 delegates assembled to approve the Freedom Charter in 1955 – which formed the basis for the current South African Constitution.

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