Word: soweto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million blacks live in Soweto only 10 miles from "white" Johannesburg. How are they any less South African than...
...What do you do with Soweto? Kick the people...
...million blacks in Soweto might just as easily say this is their country...
Ironically, the government touched off the renewed anxiety over communism when it legalized the party last February, along with the rest of South Africa's outlawed political organizations. Longtime party leader Joe Slovo returned in triumph from exile in April and scheduled a huge welcome-back rally in Soweto this week. Since the communists have long been a powerful part of the black nationalist movement, Slovo was named to the five-man A.N.C. delegation slated to meet with De Klerk this week...
...called for Mandela to be shot by a sniper at Johannesburg's Jan Smuts Airport when he returned to South Africa on July 18. The Afrikaner group also allegedly planned to blow up power stations, assassinate Members of Parliament and poison the water supply to the black township of Soweto. Though the South African government did confirm that it had arrested eleven whites, it would say only that they were released after questioning...