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They are unlikely tourist attractions: South Africa 's urban townships are congested shantytowns, home to millions - up to a third of the country's black population. It was in the townships that the struggle against apartheid was at its most intense, but until recently few white South Africans, and fewer tourists, had actually been to Soweto or any of the other impoverished areas that huddle around South Africa 's largest cities. These days, though, a township tour is practically mandatory for anyone visiting South Africa. Soweto, a few miles from Johannesburg, Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings...
...Cape Town, try the Rainbow Curtain township tour run by Grassroute Tours (www.grassroutetours.co.za). This includes stops in District Six, a once mixed-race suburb near the city center where residents forcibly removed in the 1960s are only now finally returning. There's also Langa, the city's oldest black township, where tourists can visit the ghetto hostels set up by the apartheid government to house migrant workers, and Khayelitsha, Cape Town 's largest settlement, now with its own vibrant unofficial economy for everything from clothes to cars. The complete tour costs $45. If you want to stay overnight, Khayelitsha resident...
Fried sees a lot of himself in Maki, a first-year winger from Shelby Township, Mich. They are roughly the same size: Maki is 6’2, 195; Fried is 6’3, 210. Each plays the same power-forward, hard-to-the-walls game. And it took both of them time to adjust their long-limbed frames to Division I college hockey...
...proper health care. Whoever is in charge of mental health in these countries should have to spend a week living the way these unfortunate people live. Perhaps then there would be a greater understanding of what it is like to live with a mental illness. Dina Riggs Gloucester Township...
...head became the central mystery in the case. Durst was arrested 11 days later, after a boy discovered Black's torso bobbing offshore. Durst's second wife, Debrah Charatan, helped him post $300,000 bail and he fled. On Nov. 30, 2001, he turned up in rural Hanover Township, Pa., where he was nabbed for shoplifting a sandwich, even though he had $500 in his pocket and about $38,000 in his car. Police also found in his possession two .38-cal. pistols, pot and ammunition. Durst's lawyer Dick DeGuerin tells TIME that Durst "was just then coming...