Word: soweto
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...called for Mandela to be shot by a sniper at Johannesburg's Jan Smuts Airport when he returned to South Africa on July 18. The Afrikaner group also allegedly planned to blow up power stations, assassinate Members of Parliament and poison the water supply to the black township of Soweto. Though the South African government did confirm that it had arrested eleven whites, it would say only that they were released after questioning...
...duties while being distracted by a family crisis. Last month the reputation of his controversial wife Winnie was further damaged when her former chief bodyguard was convicted in a Johannesburg court of murdering a teenage black activist. The judge found that the youth had been beaten at the Mandelas' Soweto home in Winnie's presence. Mandela said the government was smearing his wife in court without giving her a hearing...
...most personal of the books, it is in some ways the most powerful. But Malan's self-absorption obscures his extraordinary credentials. He is a relative of Daniel F. Malan, one of the architects of apartheid. Rian becomes the righteous recorder of black rage in the "charnel house" of Soweto, the largest black township created by that apartheid. Alas, the conflict of genealogy and emotion tends to produce more heat than light. In a typical episode, Malan recalls a psychopath who murdered whites with a hammer; Simon Mpungose's story "seemed to unfold like the story of a saint, deeply...
...years that the journalism business was on the verge of blowing its top. Now it's been done in full view of the country. We have seen supposedly responsible newspapers give over Page One to Donald and Ivana Trump on the same day that Nelson Mandela returned to Soweto and the Allies of World War II agreed to the unification of Germany...
Perhaps this is an idea whose time has come. The intellectual attic is stuffed now. Urgent, exotic pieces of lumber (like Nagorno-Karabakh and Baku and Soweto and Tadzhikistan and Violeta Chamorro and Yegor Ligachev and Tadeusz Mazowiecki and Sisulu and Umberto Eco, on and on) are gathering in the mind from all over the world. They are tumbling out the windows...