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...serve for the funeral service, crowds of youths had gathered. There was dancing, rhythmic chanting and waving of fists for imprisoned Black Leader Nelson Mandela. Stones were picked up, but none were thrown. Army weapons were held at the ready, but no shots were fired. Police dogs appeared atop armored cars, but none were unleashed. Police whips were brandished, but none were used...
...made our way out to right field, and up to the section they've erected out there atop the grandstand roof. There are tables, standing room, a big bar, a food court with everything from really good sausage sandwiches to really wonderful New England clam chowder. It's a small, elbow-to-elbow party out there, and on a cool day when the sun would bear down on right-center the whole game, it was the perfect place...
Cactus appears in an appetizer called tostada de nopales ($5.95). Pickled and served atop a tostada with lettuce, cheese, salsa verde, and chipotle sauce, it was both slimy and refreshing, like nothing I have ever tasted before. The jury’s still out on that...
...Tutu stood atop a table in KwaThema's dusty sports stadium, surrounded by a crowd of 30,000, he spoke of the death of 15 local people in recent police actions. He denounced the government for its brutality, for its determination to keep the country's black majority in check, and for its decision to give the security forces free rein to stamp out dissent...
...blacks live. It is where the paved road ends and the dirt begins. Asphalt highways cut through Soweto, but the side streets disappear quickly into dust or mud. In the shantytowns, children and old women gather at water points to fill plastic bottles and cans, which they balance atop their heads with hip-swaying confidence as they walk home along potholed paths. The smaller the township, the fewer the amenities. Some communities have only a few electric lights, and none in individual homes. Some have only one outside privy for a row of houses. Night soil is collected...