Word: townships
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Last Wednesday Biehl was preparing to leave Cape Town. She was to fly back to Stanford on Friday to begin doctoral studies. As she had done for months, Biehl offered some fellow students a lift back to their homes in the black townships. They piled into Biehl's mustard-colored Mazda, the one with the bumper sticker reading OUR LAND NEEDS PEACE. Around 5 p.m., as she drove into the township of Guguletu, a group of teenagers hurled stones at the car. Trapped behind another vehicle, Biehl was a sitting target for the brick that shattered her windshield...
...month, the sky has fallen, bit by bit and drop by drop, and the waters have gathered on the face of the earth to flow into the river; and now it has risen up and rolled onward like an ocean on the march, capturing farmland and township, bridge and barge...
Seale, 45, described how he and Irene, in an attempt to extort $18 million from Exxon, ambushed Reso from a van parked in front of his Morris Township home. When Reso stopped to pick up his newspaper at the end of his driveway, "I yelled and grabbed him by the collar," Seale told the judge. "I pulled him into the van, and when he got into the van he went to turn and the gun went off." For four days, the couple held the badly wounded Reso without food and water in a locked wooden box in a self-storage...
...South Africa slips deeper into conflict, it might be traced to a morning in June when President F.W. de Klerk attempted to visit Boipatong, scene of the most recent township massacre. Until then he was often greeted in black communities by chants of "Viva comrade De Klerk!" But in Boipatong angry young men blocked his way and called him a murderer. De Klerk fled in the presidential BMW, consternation written on his face...
...apartheid and promised to shape a new South Africa? The harsh answer dawning on an increasingly militant Mandela and others is that De Klerk, despite his reforms, is not intent on securing justice and freedom for all; if that were true, he would be doing more to end the township violence. Instead, they believe, De Klerk has revealed himself as a ruthless practitioner of realpolitik, determined to preserve decisive white power and privilege...