Soweto

This guide to Soweto in Johannesburg opens in 1955, as bulldozers tear through Sophiatown, one of the city's few multiracial neighborhoods, forcing families out to make way for a new white suburb. It follows the mass relocations that filled the open land southwest of the city between 1956 and 1960, and the 1949 competition to name the sprawling new townships. Listen for the plain bureaucratic phrase that gave the area its name.