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 SOWETO, South Africa (AP) - The towering construction cranes and the cacophony of churning concrete trucks and rumbling cherry pickers are the sights and sounds of a business boom in South Africa's most famous township.
Black South Africans are reaping the benefits of a growing economy, and at the heart of it all is Soweto, the sprawling township in the southwest of Johannesburg that was at the center of the anti-apartheid struggle.
Soweto "historically has been the leader in our national movement toward freedom ... and we expect no less from it in our struggle toward the economic growth of the majority," said Jason Ngobeni, executive director for the economic development of Johannesburg.
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