And I'm Renee Montagne. This morning in Soweto, South Africa, crowds continue to congregate around the family home of Nelson Mandela, who died yesterday. During the struggle against apartheid, Soweto ...

SOWETO, South Africa (AFP) – In the South African township of Soweto, Nelson Mandela's former neighbours voiced sadness and resignation on Monday that their hero may not have long to live. "There will ...

Soweto. This section of Johannesburg in Gauteng, South Africa is perhaps better knows for its history, particularly the Soweto uprising of 1976. But it also played the role of home to some of South ...

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Soweto, SOUTH AFRICA - Every year thousands of tourists visit the house in Soweto, outside of Johannesburg, where anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela lived from 1946 to 1962 - prior to his long ...

SOWETO, South Africa -- In this sprawling Johannesburg suburb, a crowd lined up to write birthday greetings on a huge poster outside the modest house that Nelson Mandela once called home, part of a ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- On a street corner in Soweto, David Mohale sat in the warm summer sun Friday, remembering the life of the man who brought him freedom, the hero of the nation’s ...

It's MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep. RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: And I'm Renee Montagne. This morning in Soweto, South Africa, crowds continue to congregate around the family home of ...

NPR's Gregory Warner speaks with Renee Montagne about the scene near the family home of Nelson Mandela in Soweto, South Africa, where people are gathered to mourn the former president's life. And I'm ...