This ice cream vendor from Soweto keeps generations smiling


By AGENCY
  • People
  • Monday, 10 Jan 2022

A resident buying ice cream from Mtshali's ice cream truck in Soweto. Photo: Emmanuel Croset/AFP

The melody of Sipho Mtshali's ice cream van has drawn hordes of Soweto children since South Africa's violent apartheid years, flocking to lap up creamy, soft servings.

Decades later, Mtshali is still going strong.

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