SOWETO, South Africa -- Thrill-seekers get a breathaking vantage point on Soweto from two 300-foot-high cooling towers -- especially when they swing by a rope suspended far above the ground. The ...

The towers are cooling towers at the Orlando Power Station, a coal-fired power station in Soweto that was commissioned at the end of the Second World War and decommissioned in 1998. Stay informed.

In recognition of its social and cultural impact, the Soweto Cooling Towers project was recently shortlisted for an international award at the 2025 World Out of Home Organization Congress, held in ...