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Tour Guide of Modern day Soweto

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   Tour Guide of Modern day Soweto - Soweto was created by the white government in the 1930s on the southwestern fringe of Johannesburg.  Apartheid  ended in 1994 but change is still going on in Soweto today. In the apartheid era there was no electricity and few paved roads, but today in some parts of Soweto you can often see a Porsche parked outside the road's string of upscale restaurants, says The New York Times. Today, there is even a theater in Soweto that has an annual attendance of about 50,000 people, doubling in the last 3 years. Cafes have also popped up in neighboring districts with one being the Moja CafĂ© that had beers that cost more than the country's hourly minimum wage. Some other activities consist of taking a  bicycle tour  throughout Soweto, visiting their  two  most popular museums, or even spending time at the  Oppenheimer Gardens . - Some areas are more well off than others, however. One such area is Klipspruit, that sti...