Word: township
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...disagrees with SASC on whom he should meet. Heimert says he consulted with Black educators informing them about the program, pointing to a meeting in Cape Town with Black professors and a meeting with members of the Soweto Parents Council, a community effort to educate Blacks in that segregated township. "I meet with educators," when involved in an educational project, not politicians, Heimerts argues...
Efforts at privatization have not always gone smoothly. Buckingham Security, which operates a 95-bed prison in Butler County, Pa., was forced to back away from a plan to build a new medium-security prison in Chartiers Township, Pa., after hundreds of angry residents stormed the town hall in protest. Among their concerns: Who would chase down escapees? Answer: the company would call in state or local law-enforcement officials...
Twenty armored vehicles sealed off the nearby black township of Bekkersdal, and police conducted a house-to-house search for those involved in the officers' deaths. At one roadblock, they arrested two men carrying an AK-47 assault rifle and six hand grenades. A total of 86 blacks were charged with murder or public violence, while an additional 250 people were detained and interrogated...
More than 40,000 people packed the soccer stadium in Mamelodi, a black township outside Pretoria, to attend a funeral rally for twelve blacks killed during a clash with police three weeks ago. Diplomats from the U.S. and ten other Western countries were among those who had come to pay their respects to the dead, including a two-month-old baby who suffocated from tear-gas fumes. While police looked on from a hill above the stadium, the mourners sang freedom songs, waved the black, green and gold flag of the outlawed African National Congress and cheered speeches by both...
...federation's ambitious agenda includes the call for foreign divestment and nationalization of major industries, the release of Nelson Mandela, the withdrawal of government troops from the black townships and the abolition of the pass laws. Barayi said the federation would lead a campaign for blacks to burn their passbooks publicly if the law is not revoked within six months. That threat prompted grim reminders of the last widespread protest against the & pass laws, which ended with the deaths of 67 people after police opened fire on a demonstration in the black township of Sharpeville in 1960. The A.N.C., which...