Sowetan, noun

/səˈwe(ː)t(ə)n/
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Formerly also Sowetoan.
Origin:
EnglishShow more Formed on Soweto + English suffix -an (forming adjectives which are often used as nouns).
A resident of Soweto; one born in Soweto; Sowetonian.
1974 Sunday Times 27 Oct. (Mag. Sect.) 2A 10 per cent poll would suggest that most Sowetans were either wholly apathetic or boycotted the elections entirely.
1977 Time 10 Jan. 25Even the usual small pleasures have been denied to many Sowetoans this Christmas. The township is in un-official mourning.
1978 Time 26 June 21The housing is a better offer than Sowetans have experienced up to now.
1982 Drum Jan. 61Soweto 9 am. That rare breed of young men who don’t even know what an employer looks like but whose shoes cost more than the average Sowetan’s monthly income.
1984 M. Mthethwa in Frontline July 28Such incidents have long been to Sowetans what vanilla is to ice cream — common.
1990 Independent (U.K.) 10 Feb. (Mag. Sect.) 34Nothing reveals more eloquently the essentially bourgeois aspirations of average Sowetans than the fixation they have on weddings.
A resident of Soweto; one born in Soweto; Sowetonian.
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so waar, interjectionint.Soweto, nounn.
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