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...thirds majority gives the A.N.C. the power to change the constitution, though it says it will not do so. The white-led Democratic Alliance won 12%, while its coalition partner, the Zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom Party, got 7%. Support for the New National Party, the reconstituted former apartheid ruling party, collapsed, falling from 7% to less than 2%. MEANWHILE IN CANADA ... Drive Softly, Safely Researchers in Newfoundland have found that listening to loud, up-tempo music while driving slows motorists' reaction time by up to 20%. British motoring organization the RAC Foundation released a list of the most dangerous tunes...
They are unlikely tourist attractions: South Africa 's urban townships are congested shantytowns, home to millions - up to a third of the country's black population. It was in the townships that the struggle against apartheid was at its most intense, but until recently few white South Africans, and fewer tourists, had actually been to Soweto or any of the other impoverished areas that huddle around South Africa 's largest cities. These days, though, a township tour is practically mandatory for anyone visiting South Africa. Soweto, a few miles from Johannesburg, Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings...
...www.grassroutetours.co.za). This includes stops in District Six, a once mixed-race suburb near the city center where residents forcibly removed in the 1960s are only now finally returning. There's also Langa, the city's oldest black township, where tourists can visit the ghetto hostels set up by the apartheid government to house migrant workers, and Khayelitsha, Cape Town 's largest settlement, now with its own vibrant unofficial economy for everything from clothes to cars. The complete tour costs $45. If you want to stay overnight, Khayelitsha resident Vicki Balman runs a guesthouse from her shanty home. Bed and breakfast...
...success is Newtown, long the city's theater district and now full of restaurants and other attractions. Access to the area is easier with the opening of the Nelson Mandela Bridge over a number of railway tracks. The mainstay of the district remains Market Theatre, which defied apartheid laws against mixed audiences long before democracy arrived. A police report in 1977 noted with distaste that "the White, Indian, Coloured and Bantu spectators watch the same performances and pay the same ticket price." These days, patrons pay anywhere from $5 to $17 to take in local plays like Bergville Stories (until...
...Mandela pushed an economic agenda of privatization and free market reform, the effects of apartheid have persisted. According to a recent government report, the five years between 1996 and 2001 have seen the average income for South African blacks decrease by 17 percent as the average income for whites increased by just as much...