Word: soweto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...large staff of trained personnel organise recreational activities in Soweto. Soccer fields, basketball courts, tennis courts, swimming pools, play grounds, golf courses, etc. have been provided and are being added to constantly...
...Soweto has a bright future and if the present tempo of development and the enthusiasm of its residents, the local authorities and their advisors can be maintained, then there is every reason to believe that it will become a prosperous, modern city within the next 10 years...
...instructed not to walk anywhere at night, and to exercise great caution during the day, especially on weekends. A downtown neighborhood which contains a few leading hotels has earned the nickname "Murder Mile." Marauders prey on tourists and others and then melt into the lines for the buses to Soweto...
...Soweto, the sprawling black township which houses most of Johannesburg's Blacks, suffers from the world's highest crime rate. "Most of Soweto is not fit for humans," declares Fanyana Mazibuko, a banned former Soweto school teacher. It is a dismal place. The government-operated tourist bus drives past rows of uniform dirty gray row houses. Outhouses, made out of strips of corrugated metal, squat behind most of them: 80 per cent of Soweto's homes lack electricity and running water. Barbed wire surrounds a school and many of the homes...
After explaining that the government set the bread or poverty line at 175 rands a month (one rand equals about $1.05), the driver said that Soweto's street cleaners earn 144 rands per month. The tour stopped at a factory for handicapped workers, where crippled and deformed men and women knit fishnet bags, clean foam, and weave tapestries on primitive looms. The chubby white director refused to divulge wages. "I never ask anybody what he makes, so I never discuss these matters," she snapped. One employee said he received 14 rands in July; another said he had been paid eight...