PRIVATE GALLERIES: South Africa: Img144

A nuclear power plant looms behind shanty homes in Soweto, an urban area of the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. Its origins are as a very poor and impoverished black township under South Africa's Apartheid government. The population has historically been overwhelmingly black and some of the watershed events in the struggle against Apartheid occurred in the township.

A nuclear power plant looms behind shanty homes in Soweto, an urban area of the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. Its origins are as a very poor and impoverished black township under South Africa's Apartheid government. The population has historically been overwhelmingly black and some of the watershed events in the struggle against Apartheid occurred in the township.