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...lead to his removal from Stellenbosch. Pondering what to do, "I prayed to God to show me a way," he says. "The very next day I received the call in a telegram. As I read it, I burst into tears." A 1,000-member church in Mamelodi, a black township outside Pretoria, was inviting him to become a pastor. Smith immediately said...
...mythical locale, to be sure, though Rhode Island does have a Succotash Point, where the unemployment rate of the surrounding township has risen from 5.7% to 7.7% in the past year...
Gloria S. Cohen Plymouth Township...
...bonus to buyers. A free Cadillac (value: $18,300) will go to the new owner of a three-bedroom ranch house in exclusive Bloomfield Hills that is priced at $204,000; a less commanding Chevette (value: $7,000) goes along with a three-bedroom colonial in a Canton Township suburb...
Soweto, the sprawling black township which houses most of Johannesburg's Blacks, suffers from the world's highest crime rate. "Most of Soweto is not fit for humans," declares Fanyana Mazibuko, a banned former Soweto school teacher. It is a dismal place. The government-operated tourist bus drives past rows of uniform dirty gray row houses. Outhouses, made out of strips of corrugated metal, squat behind most of them: 80 per cent of Soweto's homes lack electricity and running water. Barbed wire surrounds a school and many of the homes...