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Local time Friday 6:54 PMWeather 22°C, ShowersOuter Index 29 · #523 of 1912 today1 USD 16.5 ZAR

Soweto is a township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa and one of the suburbs of Johannesburg, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for South Western Townships.

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In the news

• Carnage on Wall Street Thursday, Nasdaq plunges 5.50 percent
  londonmercury.com · 15 h ago · 7 outlets
• Mokonyane concedes poor service delivery driving down ANC voter turnout
  citizen.co.za · 9 h ago
• TOBY SHAPSHAK | Is Google's $500bn blowout the AI bubble bursting?
  businessday.co.za · 13 h ago
• Ouaddou reveals trophy-winning secret he found t…
  kickoff.com · 17 h ago
• Da Cruz reveals Chiefs transfer plans after Mokw…
  kickoff.com · 17 h ago
• 'The ANC is in trouble in Gauteng,' says Beaumont as ActionSA makes inroads
  timeslive.co.za · 19 h ago
• WATCH LIVE | The Political Arena team unpacks trends on the election results
  businessday.co.za · 8 h ago · 2 outlets
• Mokonyane says ANC would be 'worse off' if local polls were in 2024
  timeslive.co.za · 23 h ago

Headlines from the outlets named, found through the GDELT Project. Translations and an AI summary are in the app. All the news in Soweto.

This week

Things to do in Soweto this weekend

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Weather this week

• Fri22° / 17°Cloudy
• Sat26° / 17°Heavy rain
• Sun25° / 11°Heavy rain
• Mon21° / 10°Cloudy
• Tue27° / 15°Fair

Forecast by MET Norway, CC BY 4.0, updated 4 h ago.

Nearby

• Roodepoort 12 km
• Johannesburg 20 km
• Westonaria 22 km
• Krugersdorp 22 km
• Randburg 24 km
• Evaton 30 km

Learn here

• University of Johannesburg 49,910 students
• Technikon Witwatersrand 12,000 students
• Darul Uloom Zakariyya 800 students
• Rand Afrikaans University
• Bunting Road Campus Auckland Park
• Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
• University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Humanities
• School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering

Universities and colleges within 25 km, from Wikidata, CC0.

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