SOWETO TOUR - South Western Townships tour - Johannesburg, South Africa
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The establishment of Soweto is, like Johannesburg, linked directly to the discovery of Gold in 1885. Thousands of people from around the world and South Africa flocked to the new town to seek their fortunes or to offer their labour. Within 4 years Johannesburg was the second largest city. More than half the population was black, most living in multi racial shanty towns near the gold mines in the centre of the town. As the gold mining industry developed, so did the need for labour increase. Migrant labour was started and most of these workers lived in mine compounds. However other workers had to find their own accommodation often in appalling conditions.
The first residents of what is now known as Soweto were located into the area called Klipspriut in 1905 following their relocation from “Coolietown” in the centre of Johannesburg as a result of an outbreak of bubonic plague. The Johannesburg City Council took the opportunity to establish racially segregated residential areas. Some residents were to be relocated to Alexandra township (near the present day Sandton). This group comprised black, Indian and coloured families and they received freehold title to their land (this was subsequently reversed by the Apartheid Government). Only black families were located into Klipspruit and the housing was on a rental basis. Klipspruit was subsequently renamed Pimville.
During the 1930’s the demand for housing for the large numbers of black people who had moved into Johannesburg grew to such an extent that new housing was built in an area known as Orlando, named after the first administrator Edwin Orlando Leaky.
In the 1940’s James Mpanza led the first land invasion and some 20000 squatters occupied land near Orlando. James Mpanza is known as the “Father of Soweto”.
A view of Soweto from the top of the Oppenheimer towerIn 1959 the residents of Sophiatown were forcibly removed to Soweto and occupied the area known as Meadowlands. Sir Earnest Oppenheimer, the first chairman of the Anglo American Corporation, was appalled by the housing shortage and was instrumental in arranging a loan for the construction of additional housing and this is commemorated by the Oppenheimer Tower in Jabulani. #soweto #johannesburg #southafrica
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Soweto Gold is taking over Mzansi, one kasi at a time – Soweto, now’s your time to shine!
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Gatsby Sandwich - Eating South African Food in Cape Town, South Africa Video Transcript:
What have we done?
Oh, what have we done?
Oh my gosh. Okay, so today we're in Cape Town and we wanted to try the Gatsby. This is a dish that apparently originated in the Cape Flats.
It is fast food so we thought hey let's order two half portions and then this behemoth of a meal arrived and I'm not entirely sure how we're going to eat all of this.
I don't think we can accurately portray just how big this is. It is huge. Put your hand out.
My hands. Tada.
Like this thing is enormous. It is like bigger than my head. This is the half portion.
This is way bigger than your head.
Imagine if we had gotten the full one. Like the bread would be out to here. Like, this is to feed a family. It is enough food to feed a group of friends and we're going to eat all of this. Just the two of us. Arggh!
Okay, so it is time introduce you to the Gatsby. Time to tuck into it but first basically it is just if you can imagine it is a massive submarine sandwich. Yeah. You can see it is shaped like a submarine.
If we actually went like that you can see that is probably what a large one looks like. Yes, that would be one large basically.
Maybe one large one.
And anyways yeah. Let's take a look and see what is inside. So it is filled with chips. That is the key ingredient. Every Gatsby has chips. Woah, look at how many chips there are.
And then the one that I got here is the Steak Masala so you can see there is a big generous chunk of steak. Big hunk of steak.
I noticed some lettuce at the bottom. There is a bit of salad in there as well. Yeah, there is a little bit of salad but is obviously at the very very bottom.
Yeah, and we noticed on the menu they had a whole bunch of fillings. You can get it with hotdog, sausage, eggs.
They had one with curry as well too. So many options.
You can get anything you want really. Alright, so let's actually go in for the first bite. Actually they just told us we're supposed to be eating this with our hands.
I got mine, I think there is barbecue and maybe like a bit of piri piri. That is like really spicy so you really taste the chips, you taste the steak and then of course there is not a lot of salad in there. I have to say. I do think there is some onions but my gosh. You know what this is like hangover food.
This is the ultimate hangover food when you have a you feel you're a lot more hungry than you actually are.
And not only that I kind of feel like this is the type of food that what was probably created by a ten year old. Mom, mom let's make a giant sandwich let's throw in some french fries, let's throw in some steak.
My gosh that is good. The Gatsby for the win.
Alright, so I'm already getting full eating Sam's chips. I haven't even touched mine. So let's have a look. I ordered the one with chips and cheese. Oh look at that and tomato sauce and piri piri spice on the chips and it also has salad.
So yeah. Oh my gosh. My goal is to try and finish at least one piece. It is so big it is hard to even pick up. Look at that.
Yours must be spicy? It is good. Well the tomato sauce is sweet so it balances out but seriously this is like carb overload. Bread and potatoes. Yeah, there is no way we each needed our own half one. We could have shared a half. We will try our best. Had we known. Had we known. We'll try our best to finish it.
My gosh. I don't even want to know how many calories are in that thing.
This is part of our Travel in South African video series showcasing South African food, South African culture and South African cuisine.
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