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Most daunting of apartheid's legacies is the near total collapse of education for most of the 6 million school-age black children. Ever since the 1976 Soweto uprising, students have manned the barricades under the slogan "Liberation Now, Education Later," and the government has funneled much more money into white schools. The results have been horrendous: 40% of black students drop out, and last year only 44% of those remaining passed. An estimated 3 million young blacks make up a "lost generation" that is virtually unemployable...
...least Soweto and other townships have schools and additional basic services. They are the envy of the country's worst off: the estimated 7 million blacks -- 18% of the population of 38 million -- living in urban shanty towns. Like Crossroads, the notorious squatter camp on the edge of Cape Town, these settlements are mostly populated by impoverished peasants from the countryside seeking jobs. The squatter camps are a breeding ground for black extremists who will make life difficult for a Mandela-led government unable to work economic miracles overnight...
These lessons are important, but in the shadow of the Holocaust rather banal. They do not require the authority of Auschwitz. They follow easily enough from Soweto and Howard Beach, from Sarajevo and Nagorno-Karabakh...
...former Police Chief Daryl Gates' bleep-you to the city). Goldberg sees some hope. "At least blacks can now say to Korean grocers, 'You are rude when we come into the store,' and the Koreans can say, 'When you come into the store, we're frightened.' " Filming Sarafina! in Soweto last winter (she plays a courageous teacher in the musical, which will be released this week in New York City and Los Angeles), Whoopi was the target of a "declaration of war" by a black group opposed to the project. "We talked it over," she says, "and the problem...
...these atrocities, but they remained loath to compromise the U.N. Charter's criterion for use of outside force; the days of "intervention" by Western colonial empires were too recent. Beyond that, some U.N. members did not bear much scrutiny when it came to internal violence. While condemning bloodshed in Soweto, for example, Syria freely bombarded insurgents in the city of Hama...