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Classes are in session from the northern Transvaal to Cape Province. Khayelitsha, a sandy, windswept tract along the South Atlantic coast, is the largest black township in the Cape Town area. Its small A.N.C. campaign office -- one of 94 around the country -- is a whitewashed single-story building in a neighborhood where thieves and vandals have driven out most residents and shopkeepers. Behind barred windows, regional secretary Richard Dyantyi, 24, a slim former marketing student, directs the A.N.C.'s organizational work. Though he has only one telephone, one fax and two reluctant copying machines, he has lots of helpers. Their...
While perhaps 200 million coastal dwellers are now prosperous, and tens of millions of township and village enterprises are thriving, 90 million hamlet dwellers in the interior are still stuck in subsistence farming and near feudal conditions. "Beijing has no extra money to spend on us," says an official in northern Shanxi province. "We were told we would be helped after the reforms took off in the south." Much of the north is still waiting. A businessman from Gansu province, where a quarter of the population is illiterate, complains, "We will always be 10 years behind Shenzhen." At least...
Keith Elias, Princeton RB (Sr., 5-11, 200) Lacey Township...
...Once in a while he lies to revert to his shore background," Tosches says of the Lacey Township. N.J. Nature, who only recently cut his shoulder length hair that used to flow out from under his helmet in previous seasons. Of course, when Alias gets on the field today against Harvard, the Crimson defense will have a lot more to think about than what type of music Elias listens to or how long the All-American's hair...
...family entered South Africa to a grim reception. We departed on a similar note. On the day we left, I read in the newspaper that an American student had just been killed in a township. The student had devoted herself to helping the cause of South African Blacks, and had been escorting a few of her fellow Black students home when she was approached and savagely killed by several youths. Her murderers belonged to one of the leftist groups committed to promoting discord for their own agenda. Ironically, they accused her of being a white racist as they killed...