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Such viciousness is a regular occurrence in South Africa today. Two people were killed by necklaces in Soweto, the sprawling black township outside Johannesburg, on New Year's Day. Steve Kgame, a well-known community leader in the Soweto-Witwatersrand area who has faced demands from radicals to quit his local government post, was in serious condition last week with gunshot wounds in the head and chest. Near Durban, two officials of Inkatha, a political organization made up mainly of members of the Zulu tribe, died earlier this month after fire bombs struck their homes. Outside Port Elizabeth, a vengeful...
Some black educators, like Thomas Khambule, a former Soweto high school principal, believe the new education decree will only lead to more confrontation, boycott or no. "The Department of Education has declared a state of war," he said. "Our children are being sentenced to eternal ignorance." The department was noncommittal on the prospects of reopening the schools this week for the new term. That, said a spokesman, "depends on the reaction of parents and the community...
From the small red brick house in the black township of Soweto that has become the headquarters for her struggle, Winnie Mandela remains defiant and determined. "The black man does not have the word reform in his vocabulary," she says. "Blacks in this country are talking about the transition of power to the majority. The government will not release Mandela because he will negotiate only on a transfer of power. The Afrikaner is very far from accepting that...
...make Dan Steiner a Soweto intern...
South Africa's system of apartheid sets up homelands, like Bophuthatswana, where Blacks may live. If Blacks have a job in a white urban area, they may live in a township, like Soweto, an all-Black settlement closer to their jobs. But there's not enough housing in the townships for all those who need it, so many Blacks live in illegal squatter camps...