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...says to call him "Che Guevara." He lives in Zola, one of the ghetto districts that make up the vast black township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg. At 22 he is a hardened veteran of the struggle against apartheid. He has killed "enemies of the people" and is prepared to kill again...
...afraid of the police. Blacks have invented a name for the new youthful criminals: they are the comtsotsis, gangsters masquerading as political activists. In Soweto, which has 3 million residents, an epidemic of car thefts and armed holdups has left many people cowering in their homes after sunset. The township ranks among the murder capitals of the world: in 1989 Soweto reported 1,383 killings, compared with 1,900 in New York City and 434 in Washington...
Afrikaners -- the 3 million descendants of 17th century Dutch, French and German settlers -- have seen their grip gradually weakening since 1976, when an uprising in the township of Soweto heralded a surge in black demands for political rights. But this year, by freeing Nelson Mandela, legalizing the African National Congress and pursuing negotiations with black leaders on a new constitution, President F.W. de Klerk has sent a profound shock through Afrikanerdom. Appearing finally to accept that they cannot maintain their near exclusive hold on state power for much longer, Afrikaners across the political spectrum are asking what role they should...
Didn't you also feel despair when you were growing up in a poverty-stricken South African township...
...revisions have again focused attention on what one critic, author David Owen, has called "probably the most powerful unregulated monopoly in America": the Educational Testing Service of Lawrence Township, N.J., which prepares the exams for the College Board to administer. And not just the SATs. A nonprofit corporation, ETS is by far the nation's largest private educational assessment service, offering a variety of tests that range from electrology to law to the federally sponsored National Assessment of Educational Progress, which measures student achievement in seven subjects. Founded in 1947, ETS has a serene, campus-like headquarters near Princeton University...