Word: mbongani
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...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 of Daveyton braced themselves for what seemed an almost inevitable confrontation with security forces. The township was preparing to bury Egnes Mbongani, 18, and Elizabeth Khumalo, 16, two girls shot and killed in a demonstration. They were victims, and thus they had become symbols of the unrest that has swept across South Africa...
There was a steely politeness that heightened the tension. A service had already been held for Egnes Mbongani, but would the crowd of several hundred gathered for the funeral of Elizabeth Khumalo insist on marching from the tent to the cemetery only a few blocks away? In the largest display of force since the emergency began, police and army units were on hand to prevent any such move. But the mood of the crowd was to march...
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