Word: township
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surrogate mother, Shannon Boff, 23, of Redford Township, Mich., is an old pro at the stand-in trade: she had a baby last year through the standard artificial-insemination procedure in which the fertilized egg was hers. "I think I'm going into retirement," says Boff, a married student with a 3-year- old boy of her own. "Any more babies coming from me are going to be keepers...
...morning last week Sam Morotola, the president of the local antiapartheid students' congress, was awakened by gunshots outside his small home in Atteridgeville, a black township near Pretoria. Seconds later, a marauder hurled a hand grenade at his house, blowing a hole in one wall. Morotola, who had been sleeping in a room in another part of the house, escaped harm, but his 18-year-old cousin was injured in the blast...
...Leandra, a township about 60 miles east of Johannesburg, vigilantes last January burned down the house of Chief Ampie Mayisa, a local antigovernment leader, and then hacked him to death with axes when he tried to flee. Two days later, one of Mayisa's attackers told a local reporter that they had killed him because he was "responsible for some of the youths' deaths in the township . . . for some of us missing our (school) examinations." At the beginning of this month, vigilantes in Winterveld bombed the houses of four activists who had organized a protest meeting in that tiny town...
Children danced triumphantly at the door of the small red brick house in Soweto, the sprawling black township outside Johannesburg. Neighbors and friends greeted its famous resident with joyous tears and welcoming hugs. For the first time in nine years, Winnie Mandela, a leading antiapartheid activist and the wife of jailed Black Leader Nelson Mandela, enjoyed a privilege that most take for granted: the right to enter her own home...
...black township of Kwazekele, outside Port Elizabeth, police who had taken up positions inside a liquor store shot nine people dead when the place was attacked by some 100 rioters. Two other township residents were killed in unrelated incidents. Liquor stores have long been the target of black activists because they are often owned by black officials who are regarded as collaborators with the white apartheid regime...