Word: soweto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stood beside an elderly woman veteran of South Africa's liberation struggle. They trickled down the cheek of a younger South African woman who knelt beside the flower-strewn memorial to her brother, felled by a police bullet on June 16, 1976, the first day of the Soweto uprising. After lighting candles, the kneeling woman and three other family members softly intoned their new national anthem, God Bless Africa. "That's when I lost it," Jamison said later. "I identified with them as black people, and immediately the image of slavery came into my head. This is an extraordinary survival...
Jamison, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and 28 members of her internationally acclaimed troupe began an emotional 15-day tour of South Africa last week. In Johannesburg, Pretoria and the sprawling black township of Soweto, the troupe presented hands-on workshops and dazzling stage performances of Ailey classics, including Night Creature, Vespers and Revelations. Enthusiastic audiences clapped, whooped and sometimes danced in the aisles...
...striking a few deals of her own. South Africa's former First Lady is in money trouble, and having failed to sell an interview to any British or South African news outlets (asking price: almost $800,000), she's cashing in on the cachet of the humble house in Soweto that she shared with Mandela in the 1950s. But now that Soweto is a tourist destination, the garage has become a curio shop where you can pick up a small bottle of soil from the garden ("Heroes' Acre," as the label calls it). Each bottle comes with a certificate...
...Football Against the Enemy, by Simon Kuper. From Scotland to Soweto, Kuper analyzes the socio-political ramifications of soccer in nations throughout the world. How did Person try to use soccer to his advantage in Argentinian politics? How are Eastern European clubs linked with organized crime? Fascinating questions like these are revealed, and then answered, in very readable style...
That search deepened when he went overseas in 1992 to cover South Africa's march to democracy. Taylor acquired, among other things, a bullet in his shoulder during a shoot-out near Soweto, as well as a profound sense of the gap between how democracy is viewed in a country that is enchanted by its promise and one that is disgusted by its processes. "Part of the reason we've built up a $5 trillion deficit over the past 15 years is that we don't trust our politicians," he says. "Therefore, our politicians don't have the political freedom...