Word: soweto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accused of setting fire to theshanties was not influenced by racism, Danielssaid. Rather, Daniels said Bracey has served as aChristian missionary and volunteered his medicalservices in Soweto, South Africa to help SouthAfrican Blacks in the summe, of 1983. He has alsoworked in Kenya, Tanzania, Australia, New Zealandand Vietnam over the years...
...children achieve a dignity and pride in their heritage and grow up to rightfully demand the privdleges of South African whites. The government's measures against children show a systematic campaign to prevent Black South Africans from ever challenging its rule. Only an evil, cowardly regime preys on children. Soweto proved this. But the U.S. administration still feels no obligation to intervene...
...small, are sprouting like mushrooms. The South African Black Taxi Association, for example, has increased its + membership fivefold, to 45,000, since 1983 and last year made an abortive $75 million bid to take over the country's largest white-owned bus company. Last month the black-owned Soweto Investment Trust Co. acquired PepsiCo's independent South African subsidiary for $2 million...
These nascent signs of change on the landscape of apartheid have been a long time coming. In the wake of the bloody 1976 uprising in the sprawling township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, angry young radicals trashed many black businesses, along with government-owned liquor stores and beer halls, as symbols of white oppression. At that time they could find relatively few such targets, since the law impeded black ownership of homes and businesses in urban areas. Only gradually were free enterprise and limited schemes for home ownership extended to the townships on the basis of 99-year leases. In April...
...Soweto suburbs that were once flash points of unrest, signs now advertise dozens of new residential developments. Almost every other house in the black townships has a fresh look. Some feature do-it-yourself extensions; others are brand new, built on cleared lots or over old foundations. This home-ownership drive has produced profitable spin-offs for black businesses, ranging from contractors and suppliers of building materials to dealers in instant lawns and burglar-alarm systems. Moses Mahlalela, 41, a design engineer with offices in one of the new Soweto shopping centers, can hardly keep up with demand...