Sipho Sephamla, Mafika Gwala, James Matthews, Keorapetse Kgositsile to name but a few are poets that rose up in an era where poetry was just not fanciful. "Soweto poetry is the single most important socio-literary phenomenon of the seventies in South Africa..." Chris Mann in the introduction of his collection called Soweto Poetry. 

Soweto Poetry is also known as Post-Sharpeville poetry, township poetry, New Black Poetry of the Seventies, Participatory poetry and People's poetry" so not all these poets live in Soweto. It is so named because Soweto provided a stimulus for poetry"


source: Soweto Poetry: literary perspectives, edited by Chris Mann. "an anthology of essays, reviews and interviews that seeks to understand and appreciate... the rise to prominence of Black Consciousness poetry."