Word: soweto
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...killing, one that seemed to bear out recent warnings by the outlawed African National Congress (A.N.C.) that "soft" targets--meaning unarmed civilians, including whites--would no longer be off limits. Nonetheless, blacks suffered the brunt of the year-end violence. At least five people died in the township of Soweto, as militants fought with migrant workers who refused to observe a "black Christmas" boycott called by the militants to honor those who had died since the violence began in September 1984. In Natal province, 58 blacks were killed when 2,000 Zulus and 3,000 members of the Pondo tribe...
...more preoccupied with Mandela's wife Winnie, 51, who is known as "the mother of the nation" by black activists. In 1977 the government banished her to Brandfort, a remote settlement in the Orange Free State. Since then she has not been permitted to live in her home in Soweto, outside Johannesburg. Even so, she returned there in August after unidentified arsonists fire bombed her Brandfort residence. Not surprisingly, Mandela blamed the government for that bombing. When police officers arrived last week with new orders that ended the forced exile in Brandfort but still prohibited her from entering Soweto, Mandela...
After three hours of heated discussion, police officers dragged Mandela from the two-bedroom house and drove her outside the district limits. She returned to Soweto early the next morning, and was arrested by security officials and forcibly carried away In Washington, U.S. officials expressed concern "that Mrs. Mandela's arrest could lead to further escalation of violence in South Africa," and called for her immediate release. A Johannesburg judge charged Mandela with violating her restriction order but released her without requesting bail. A trial is scheduled for Jan. 22. Said Mandela: "I am charged with a crime that does...
...lives of tens of thousands of blacks and whites remain intertwined. Every weekday a black woman in her early 60s, whose first name is Aletta, goes from her home in Soweto to the Parkwood suburb of Johannesburg, where she works half a day for a white family. She is one of thousands of black women who work in white homes and provide the main income for their families. She has been a domestic servant in white households for most of her life. Her husband is dead, and she lives in a four-room house with her three daughters...
Most thoughtful whites and blacks would probably agree that somehow they must find a way to live together. Says Ntatho Motlana, a black physician in Soweto: "It's a sort of love-hate relationship. But when you get down to it, the relationship exists." A number of African leaders, including Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, have said that they accept the white South Africans as Africans. "They cannot be pushed over Table Mountain into the sea," Kaunda once said...