By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Sunday, April 10, 1994
SOWETO—Seeing this famous black township brings to mind ruins of war, of battle just done.
On nighttime approach—home to the Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, and Tswana tribes—the flames of random trash fires send millions of sparks into an eerie sky heavy with the stench of rotting animals.
This is Soweto—land of misery, despair, and heartbreak, of senseless deaths, crushing poverty, frightening crime and urban squalor.
Funeral parlor owners have the most lucrative business, the most beautiful homes and affluence that rival that of Johannesburg’s wealth white suburbs.