Word: soweto
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...nonwhite townships around Johannesburg and Cape Town, and a department store in downtown Johannesburg was fire-bombed-the first such act of urban terrorism in the country's history. Shortly before Kissinger's blue and white 707 touched down, police fired at demonstrators in Johannesburg's Soweto township, killing six students and wounding 35. In no time, rumors were circulating in London, New York and elsewhere that the Secretary had been assassinated. Paraphrasing Mark Twain, Kissinger quickly retorted that the reports of his "having been shot were grossly exaggerated...
...police clashed with a crowd of 700 students. In Manenburg, mobs stoned police and threatened to attack nearby white areas; the cops responded with rifle and shotgun fire, killing at least 14. All told, more than 325 people have been killed throughout the country since violence broke out at Soweto township near Johannesburg last June 16. Of these, all but two were black or colored...
...southern Natal and the Transkei in the south. There they live much in the tribal style of old, in beehive-shaped mud and thatch huts, sharing the kraal with their cattle. The other half work in the "white man's" South Africa, living in bedroom ghettos like Soweto. They are frequently favored for positions of trust in public service and industry...
...technically illegal under South Africa's blue laws. Himself the father of two sons (his wife Susanna is the author of a book of essays), he often speaks of his country's race problems in unabashedly paternalistic tones. "Anarchy-that's what the children of Soweto want," he told a local newspaper. "And if their parents can't control them, I will...
...however, for his kragdadigheid (iron-fistedness). He has defended the actions of his police to the hilt, declaring them to be "in the forefront of the fight to combat Communism [which is] infiltrating the country." Asked why the police did not use rubber bullets during the June rioting in Soweto in which 176 were killed, Kruger replied: "Rubber bullets give the impression the police have rubber guns. They cannot protect life and property with rubber guns, and I have no intention of asking them...