Word: daveyton
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...harsh crystal sunlight of a South African winter, the black township of Daveyton (pop. 30,000) is a bleak monument to the law of the land: that blacks and whites shall live apart. Near the entrance to the township a large sign promises the people of Daveyton a POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW. But the little concrete houses that line the treeless streets, the dry, packed earth that everywhere passes for a garden, and the acrid smell of coal fires in the early-morning air are evidence of a far different reality. Last week the people...
...midmorning police and military units had completely sealed off the roads leading into Daveyton, while at key intersections armored cars intercepted internal traffic. Helicopters flew overhead. Mounted policemen stood at the far edge of the cemetery, like shadowy centaurs shimmering in the dazzle of fine dust and sunlight...
...warned, the crowd might turn ugly and there would be bloodshed. The colonel said he could not promise enough transportation. The standoff continued for almost an hour, with the tension rising steadily. Finally, after an hour of weapons drawn and whips at the ready, six blue-and-cream Daveyton buses drew up near the tent. There were cheers and snouts as the crowd made its way onto the vehicles...
...drawn from Acts 21: 27-39, the story of Paul being taken into protective custody by Roman soldiers to shelter him from a Jerusalem mob. Tutu smiled thinly. When the prayer meeting was over, the bishop leaned forward to tell his staff about the previous afternoon at Daveyton. He said that during the funeral he had heard a joke about Louis Le Grange, South Africa's Minister of Law and Order, telling State President P.W. Botha that Bishop Tutu had committed suicide. Botha's astonished reply: "I didn't know you had detained...
Becoming serious again, Tutu spoke once more of the scene at Daveyton. "I am scared, " he said, shaking his head for emphasis. "I am really scared. I have never seen anything like the scene yesterday. We are building up an incredible legacy of hatred. I cannot be at all the funerals, and one just does not know what is going to happen at future funerals. How long can we restrain the people? I have just got to believe that God is around. That is the only hope. If he is not, we have had it. We are going to have...