Word: soweto
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...rival to Mandela's African National Congress. "The country is remarkably stable, although there are a couple of hiccups now and then in race relations," Hawthorne says. Mandela's government is challenged with extending the country's infrastructure from modern white cities to poor black settlements and townships like Soweto, where poor blacks can see the lights of Johannesburg from the stoops of their unheated, unlit shacks. But in the past two years the government has developed a workable administrative infrastructure to deliver necessary services. Hawthorne notes: "The orderly ceremony in Parliament reflects the way the country has been able...
JOHANNESBURG: Despite the fact that Louis Farrakhan was visiting South Africa over the weekend, Hawthorne reports that the American Muslim's meeting with Nelson Mandela "came and went with barely a flurry of interest. People in Soweto wouldn't be able to tell you who Farrakhan is." Mandela met with the controversial Farrakhan for an hour, but took pains to explain that it did not signify an acceptance of the American's beliefs...
...these emotions is Mumia Abu-Jamal, 41, a prizewinning journalist. He is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10 p.m. on Aug. 17 for a crime he insists he did not commit: the 1981 slaying of police officer Daniel Faulkner. Sympathizers around the globe from Dublin to Soweto hail him as a political prisoner punished for taking journalistic aim at politicians, police and the prison system (most recently in a book entitled Live from Death Row). If he is put to death, they argue, he will be the first American since Ethel and Julius Rosenberg to be executed...
...Nguni word meaning "Let us build each other") to achieve national reconciliation. The campaign, in part, is an effort by the A.N.C. to end the culture of protest among blacks that the party once encouraged. The results have been heartening. Before the election, 80% of the residents of Soweto, the teeming black township near Johannesburg, refused to pay their electricity bills. Today nearly 70% pay them. In the 1970s Ezekial Morailane, a school-bus driver, began withholding his rent to the Soweto Council for his matchbox house. Today he pays it regularly and is even working off his debt...
...judge in Johannesburg today threw out search warrants that were used bySouth African police to raid Winnie Mandela's Soweto homethree weeks ago. Police were investigating whether the deputy Cabinet minister and estranged wife of President Nelson Mandela took bribes to secure government contracts for a firm that she wanted to take over. The judge ruled that a local magistrate improperly acted on a police request for the warrants. He ordered police to return documents seized in the raid. But they still have papers seized from the firm. "Police said this makes no difference to the probe that's going...