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...with much of Maponya's life, the decision is as much political as financial. Soweto was created by the apartheid regime as a vast dormitory just over 19 miles (30 km) from Johannesburg city center (Soweto is short for South Western Township), where blacks would return each night to eat and sleep after another day of carefully controlled, low-paid work in the city. In the 1970s, this vast shanty town became a locus of revolution. After the end of apartheid, its tin shacks and dusty back alleys retained a reputation for poverty, unrest and crime. Maponya is undeterred. Poverty...
...murdered here in the last decade. In three days over Christmas 2004, seven were killed. Last year, 32 were murdered in and around Cape Town alone. Black South Africans have begun purging their neighborhoods. Last August in Cape Town, a crowd of 200 drove Somalis out of the seaside township of Masiphumele. On February 12, after a Somali shopkeeper fired on a robber and killed a passerby in Port Elizabeth, a mob looted and burned 89 Somali stores...
...months. Even more radical is the government's welfare revolution: the docking of welfare checks if children miss too much school, and the quarantining of some government payments to ensure they're spent on food rather than drugs and alcohol. The government also plans to take over township leases so that homes and infrastructure can be repaired; it will ban hard-core pornography and carry out health checks on all children. The rigid permit system that restricts the entry of outsiders such as journalists into communities will be largely scrapped, and Howard wants traditional Aboriginal law removed as a mitigating...
...February 29, 2000: Mount Morris Township, Michigan A 6 year-old boy brings a .32 semi-automatic handgun to school and kills a first grader...
...some, this idea seems retrograde. Citing a series of Supreme Court decisions culminating in 1963's Abington Township School District v. Schempp, which removed prayer and devotion from the classroom, the skeptics ask whether it is safe to bring back the source of all that sectarianism. But a new, post-Schempp coalition insists it is essential to do so. It argues that teaching the Bible in schools--as an object of study, not God's received word--is eminently constitutional. The Bible so pervades Western culture, it says, that it's hard to call anyone educated who hasn...