What’s the word? Johannesburg

Isabel Conway visits South Africa’s largest city to be met by fabulous food, friendly locals, some harrowing history and idyllic out-of-town rural landscapes

Soweto: the townships, which are home to four million people, have become a tourism hotspot

Inside a Soweto shebeen, four young boys appear from nowhere, their eyes bright with pleasure and their small hands reaching out to scoop up chunks of boiled beef cheek, a favourite food of mineworker forefathers and served at special celebrations.

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