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Virtual-Tripping, explores, Soweto, South Africa.
By Mark on January 13, 2010
Sorry to go political on this post, but i would like to say something. When i write these posts, i am always amazed by what i find, now sometimes i have more writing than pictures and other times i have more pictures than writing. You see even though words speak for themselves, you will find that pictures will also speak for themselves, so when writing a piece of work about a town or city, which is poor and very hard up, I feel you need to have pictures to show in the western world, really how lucky we all are. We moan and whinge, about everything, we appear to never really be satisfied with what we have, and we all seem to want to do better than everyone else. But if that was the case then would we have cities and towns like Soweto. The answer to that is up to you. But even though it is hard for those people in these poorer nations, in the west we do also have hard times as well, so maybe we are right to whinge and wine, maybe we are right to be better that our fellow brother or sister and maybe we are right to earn lots of money. But do remember that it is a vicious circle and for someone who wins, there will always be someone who loses, and sometimes these losses end in disaster. But also do remember that not every person is poor in these poorer nations and you can sometimes see who the winners really are and who the losers are. For example just look at these countries like Zimbabwe, North Korea, Romania, Russia and China. And there are other countries as well.
Soweto is an urban area which belongs to the city of Johannesburg in Gauteng, South Africa, and it border’s the city’s mining belt in the north. The meaning of Soweto’s name in English means South Western Townships, this is actually refering to it’s original name, Black township, it is under the power of the South African’s Apartheid government. The town’s population is historically black and this has unfortunately been the occurance of many disputes and fights due to raceism, between black and white peoples. Between the 1970’s and the 1990’s, Soweto had been drawn apart from Johannesburg and became a separate municipality. But now that things are appearing to be better, the town of Soweto has rejoined the city of Johannesburg.
This is the best picture of all, because it just goes to show how good people really are in poorer countries and it is good to see people getting on with each other, especially in Soweto, which has had a very hard past. Cheers boys.
- Learn about Soweto on Wikipedia:
- Learn about City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality on Wikipedia:
- Learn about Gauteng on Wikipedia:
- Learn about South Africa on Wikipedia:
- Find Soweto on Google Maps:
- Find Gauteng on Google maps:
- Find South Africa on Google Maps:
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