Word: township
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...grandson of a miner and the son of a policeman, Ramaphosa grew up in Soweto, the sprawling black township outside Johannesburg. He says his greatest regret is that he never worked in a mine. Instead, he entered law school in 1972, though he did not graduate until nine years later. In the meantime, Ramaphosa was busy helping to lead the Black Consciousness movement, whose charismatic young founder, Steve Biko, died in 1977 of injuries sustained while in police custody. Ramaphosa headed the university section of the South African Students Organization, a radical umbrella group that gave rise to several militant...
Sullivan is convinced the government of State President P.W. Botha is "pushing back even the reforms that have been made." But last week Botha made a symbolic effort to gain black support by visiting the district of Lekoa, whose precincts include the township of Sharpeville. In 1960 police gunned down 69 blacks in Sharpeville when they staged a peaceful demonstration against the pass laws, which were repealed last year. The mayor of Lekoa, Esau Mahlatsi, urged Botha to allow blacks to enter Parliament, while the President in turn asked townspeople to resist "the influence of radicals and fanatics." Though Botha...
...stockholders, including unwelcome suitors, in a maneuver known as recapitalization. The idea is to create a debt-burdened company less attractive to raiders. Last week both publishing giant Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1986 revenues: $1.3 billion), of Orlando, and travel conglomerate Allegis (1986 revenues: $9.2 billion), of Elk Grove Township, Ill., made use of this shark repellent to fend off marauders...
...Soweto, the huge black township outside Johannesburg, at least five fire-bomb attacks took place last week against commuter trains, and an explosion ripped apart the rail line at Soweto's Nancefield Station, preventing thousands of black officeworkers from reaching their jobs in Johannesburg. The violence grew out of a six-week-long strike by 16,000 black transport workers...
...organization whose offices had previously been raided by police, last week won a court order against such harassment. But the next day police found the bodies of four black railway workers, who had been stabbed and burned, in the Johannesburg rail yards. A fifth body was discovered in Tembisa township, to the east of the city. White officials charged that the five had been killed by blacks for refusing to join the strike. Police once again raided the COSATU offices, this time armed with search warrants, and arrested twelve people...