Tsholo Motong: Faces of Soweto
Tsholo Motong lives in Soweto township, Johannesburg, South Africa. Soweto is home to more than 1.3 million black South Africans speaking Zulu, Xhosa, Sesotho, Setswana, Tshivenda, and many other local languages.
Short for South Western Townships, Soweto was created in the 1930s as temporary housing for black laborers who worked in the gold mines and other industries in the city of Johannesburg. The white-minority led government forced black people to relocate to Soweto during apartheid away from the city center.
In the 1970s, Soweto became the epicenter of the struggle against the South African white-minority apartheid. It is also the only place in the world with two Nobel Prize winners, human rights activists Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.
Soweto has always influenced the country through politics, sports, music, and culture. Local scenes from Soweto inspire Tsholo's work.
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Tsholo Motong lives in Soweto township, Johannesburg, South Africa. Soweto is home to more than 1.3 million black South Africans speaking Zulu, Xhosa, Sesotho, Setswana, Tshivenda, and many other local languages.
Short for South Western Townships, Soweto was created in the 1930s as temporary housing for black laborers who worked in the gold mines and other industries in the city of Johannesburg. The white-minority led government forced black people to relocate to Soweto during apartheid away from the city center.
In the 1970s, Soweto became the epicenter of the struggle against the South African white-minority apartheid. It is also the only place in the world with two Nobel Prize winners, human rights activists Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.
Soweto has always influenced the country through politics, sports, music, and culture. Local scenes from Soweto inspire Tsholo's work.
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