Word: soweto
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...sight of a gang of Zulus brandishing traditional weapons is enough to instill terror in the black townships around Johannesburg, where many residents belong to other tribal groups. Local newspapers recently published a photo that shows why. The frame captured a black man in Soweto clasping a spear and plunging it into the back of another black man, who was desperately trying to flee...
...African National Congress, who call her Mother of the Nation, did shout outrage at her conviction last week by a white judge (South Africa does not have jury trials). Mandela and two codefendants had been accused of kidnapping four young black men from a Methodist minister's home in Soweto in December 1988 and beating them in a back room of the Mandela house. Judge Michael Stegman found Winnie to be only an accessory to the assault but decided that she had planned the kidnapping. Denouncing her as a "calm, composed, deliberate and unblushing liar," he sentenced...
...execution carried out by lighting gasoline-filled tires around the necks of suspected government collaborators. She surrounded herself with a group of young bodyguard thugs known as the Mandela United Football Team who took it upon themselves to terrorize opponents -- real or imagined -- in the black township of Soweto. Increasingly imperious, Winnie was denounced in 1989 by other black leaders for having "violated human rights . . . in the name of the struggle against apartheid." She visited Nelson in prison shortly afterward, and though it is not known what he told her, a chastened Winnie immediately lowered her profile...
...Johannesburg's Rand Supreme Court against Winnie Mandela, the wife of African National Congress (A.N.C.) leader Nelson Mandela, resounded like a clap of thunder. Yes, said Kgase, Mandela and her bodyguards were guilty as charged: they savagely beat him and three other young black men in her Soweto home in December...
...tempestuous "Mother of the Nation" stands accused, along with several of her bodyguards, of kidnapping and savagely beating four young black men in her Soweto home on Dec. 29, 1988, because of their alleged sexual encounters with a white minister. Mrs. Mandela claims that the youths were taken to her home when she was away to protect them from the clergyman, who has since been cleared of wrongdoing by his church. She says she took no part in any assault. One of the victims, James "Stompie Moeketsi" Seipie, 14, was later found murdered in a field...