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Language ] >> anthony: you know where you're going right? >> mdu: yeah, i know where i'm going. >> anthony: next exit, smokey, delicious meat over flame. under the overpass, all sorts of mystery meats for sale. the taxi man's lunch. we order some brisket, some sausage, some heart. beautiful thing. meat, a cutting board, a knife. >> mdu: cut out the meat in pieces, that's how you eat it. most of the time they serve it with tomato and raw chili. that's more or less like a salad for you. we have salt over here. it's nice. >> anthony: you chose well, these guys are good. >> mdu: oh. >> anthony: he...

I will never forget that moment in my life. i felt stupid, you know? get in, get in, ma. >> woman: how are you? >> mdu: hello. >> anthony: now there is a definite cache to living in soweto. a very real pride at having been at the very center of things back when it was hard dangerous to have an opinion. nelson mandela lived here. desmond tutu. when you're a certain age and you say you were born and bred in soweto, it means something. now do most of the people own their homes, or do they rent? >> mdu: uh, most of the people own their homes. >> anthony: they start to make a little more money, thi...

Rule, synonymous with the struggle against the whole rotten racist system. >> mdu: i remember when the situation was so bad in such a way that my mother had to put me inside a box where we put shoes and hide me there, under the bed. this is where i grew up most of the time. sometimes you would get bullied. there was this time two guys were following me. they lifted me up and i had probably some few coins in my pocket. and just turned me around. just to shake me. >> anthony: shake you upside down? >> mdu: shake me upside down.

Sausage, some heart. beautiful thing. meat, a cutting board, a knife. >> mdu: cut out the meat in pieces, that's how you eat it. most of the time they serve it with tomato and raw chili. that's more or less like a salad for you. we have salt over here. it's nice. >> anthony: you chose well, these guys are good. >> mdu: oh. >> anthony: here, spread over thousands of square feet, the remnants of white colonial rule. what's left from the descendants of bible-thumping dutch settlers who came here to farm, to ranch, to build their own world on top of an existing one. the boers, as they were known, ...

>> mdu: let's go, let's go. >> anthony: this is mdu. for over a decade he's been in what is at times has been in the very difficult business of driving a taxi. you should probably know that the word taxi in soweto means something a little different then say, new york. >> mdu: 60% of the -- of the population is using a taxi. >> anthony: how many taxis in johannesburg? >> mdu: i would say more than a million. >> anthony: this coming from a potential passenger means soweto. also this and this. johannesburg has an elaborate system of hand signals indicating desired routes of travel. so you're look...