In 2023, the population of the City of Soweto, South Africa is - 1 895 921 people.Reforms followed, but riots flared up again in 1985 and continued until the first multiracial elections were held in April 1994. There were serious riots in 1976, sparked by a ruling that Afrikaans be used in African schools there the riots were violently suppressed, with 176 striking students killed and more than 1,000 injured. It experienced civil unrest during the Apartheid regime. Soweto became the largest Black City in South Africa, but until 1976 its population could have status only as temporary residents, serving as a workforce for Johannesburg. Blacks were moved away from Johannesburg, to an Area separated from White Suburbs by a so-called cordon sanitaire (or sanitary corridor) this was usually a river, a railway track, an industrial area or a highway etc., they did this by using the infamous 'Urban Areas Act' in 1923.
Soweto was created in the 1930s when the White government started separating Blacks from Whites. Soweto is an urban settlement or 'Township' in South Africa, South West of Johannesburg, with a population of approximately 1.3 Million (2008, Joburg archive).
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