“When you wake up in the morning and when you come home from work, the rotten smell is the first thing that hits you,” Priscilla Nqwili says of Kliptown, the neighbourhood she grew up ...

At night, he reads by an oil lamp. Conditions like this are typical for the nearly 40,000 people who live in the slums of Kliptown, a district in the largely black township of Soweto, South Africa.

The Soweto Chefs Academy situated along the historic Walter Sisulu Square in Kliptown, a few meters where the Freedom Charter was founded, is one of the beacons of hope and beating heartbeat for ...

On June 26 1955 the Freedom Charter is adopted in Kliptown, Soweto. The Congress of the People is held over two days in an open space, in what was a coloured township outside Johannesburg. On February ...

The South African slum of Kliptown has long suffered from high rates of unemployment, crime and school dropouts, and the end of apartheid did little to change the situation. But hundreds of ...

Kliptown, the place where the Freedom Charter was signed in 1955, is deteriorating by the day. The historic suburb in Soweto, is being stripped of its infrastructure such electrical cables, water ...

While the rest of the world celebrates Nelson Mandela’s birthday month, residents of Kliptown plan to march in protest against poor service delivery in the area and deliver a memorandum to ...

KLIPTOWN, SOWETO TOWNSHIP — In South Africa, more than a half million pupils are busy writing their marathon end of high-school examination, known here as “matric." This is a decisive time for ...

At night, he reads by an oil lamp. Conditions like this are typical for the nearly 40,000 people who live in the slums of Kliptown, a district in the largely black township of Soweto, South Africa.