Word: soweto
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...entourage made its way around the country's largest black township, young men cried, "Viva, comrade!" and children shouted, "Welcome!" Greetings for African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela? No. Last week crowds in Soweto (pop. 2 million) were showing appreciation for a white politician. President F.W. de Klerk took an unannounced tour of Soweto following weeks of violence involving rival black factions and security forces. Blacks cheered De Klerk, explained Agnes Molahlehi, 25, a nursing student, because he freed Mandela and has taken steps to abolish apartheid...
...million blacks live in Soweto only 10 miles from "white" Johannesburg. How are they any less South African than...
...What do you do with Soweto? Kick the people...
...million blacks in Soweto might just as easily say this is their country...
Ironically, the government touched off the renewed anxiety over communism when it legalized the party last February, along with the rest of South Africa's outlawed political organizations. Longtime party leader Joe Slovo returned in triumph from exile in April and scheduled a huge welcome-back rally in Soweto this week. Since the communists have long been a powerful part of the black nationalist movement, Slovo was named to the five-man A.N.C. delegation slated to meet with De Klerk this week...