Word: townships
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...phase of killing, one that seemed to bear out recent warnings by the outlawed African National Congress (A.N.C.) that "soft" targets--meaning unarmed civilians, including whites--would no longer be off limits. Nonetheless, blacks suffered the brunt of the year-end violence. At least five people died in the township of Soweto, as militants fought with migrant workers who refused to observe a "black Christmas" boycott called by the militants to honor those who had died since the violence began in September 1984. In Natal province, 58 blacks were killed when 2,000 Zulus and 3,000 members...
...interest in combining education and African music, but her proposal crystallized when a tutor in Pforzheimer House told her about a school choir in a township near Cape Town...
...best advice I've read in years. As a frequent business and personal traveler, I found the information on how to survive a fire or a wreck to be of paramount importance. I passed it around the office for my co-workers to read. Judy Corona-Karpowiczu Woolwich Township, New Jersey...
JUDY CORONA-KARPOWICZ -- Woolwich Township...
...harsh crystal sunlight of a South African winter, the black township of Daveyton (pop. 30,000) is a bleak monument to the law of the land: that blacks and whites shall live apart. Near the entrance to the township a large sign promises the people of Daveyton a POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW. But the little concrete houses that line the treeless streets, the dry, packed earth that everywhere passes for a garden, and the acrid smell of coal fires in the early-morning air are evidence of a far different reality. Last week the people...