Word: township
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midwinter cold snap hit South Africa last week, bringing snow to some areas and subfreezing temperatures everywhere. Over a number of the black townships that are often wreathed in coal-fire smog, there arose, too, the smoke and flames of arson and the swirling white clouds of police tear gas. By week's end, at least 34 blacks had been killed and 150 injured in renewed rioting across the country. After the June toll of 176 dead in Johannesburg's Soweto township, the eruption of violence raised anew the question of whether South Africa can avoid outright racial...
...desperate hours last week, it looked like a reprise of the bloody rioting in Soweto township, during which 176 people were killed and 1,139 injured in the worst racial violence in South Africa's history (TIME. June 28). On Wednesday, a crowd of 20,000 angry blacks, most of them students, gathered at dawn outside Soweto's Orlando Stadium, determined to march ten miles to police headquarters in downtown Johannesburg. Their goal: to demand the release of four student leaders arrested since the June violence...
Shock waves from the worst racial violence in South Africa's history (TIME, June 28) reverberated through that tense country last week. While heavily armed police stood guard around the smoldering ruins of Soweto-a satellite township for nearly 1 million blacks on the outskirts of Johannesburg-sporadic rioting broke out in neighboring ghettos and in black suburbs near Pretoria. In both cities, whites rushed to buy arms and ammunition for protection against the so-called swart gevaar (black peril) -although at no time were any white communities threatened...
...Afrikaans language in schools, last week's violence was provoked largely by harsh police tactics, including firing pointblank into crowds. Soweto itself was largely quiet, although trains, taxis and buses taking black workers to and from Johannesburg were occasionally stoned. To avoid further trouble, schools in the township were shut down until July...
Very little is pretty about Soweto, not even the name (which rhymes with potato). It derives from no tribal dialect but from "southwestern township," its location, eight miles southwest of the larger white city. Soweto is actually a black bedroom community for Johannesburg. Most of the adults commute daily aboard crowded, segregated trains to jobs in the city. Few whites return the visits. To enter Soweto, a white person must obtain a special permit good only for daylight hours, a day at a time...