1. ...black townships located on the fringes of the city. 2. According to the ANC and monitoring groups, the disclosures appeared to substantiate months of allegations that the security forces were involved in the violence in the black townships. 3. Tonight the black township was sealed off to whites, but the potential for further clashes remained high. 4. As far as the eye can see in a vacant section of this black township, small white stones mark off thousands of future plots. 5. As students shuttle between poor black townships and wealthier white suburbs, some said they feel they belong nowhere at all. 6. But clinics in many black townships are fetid places, short on hygiene, drugs and bedside manner. 7. But his constituents in the poor black townships of Bulawayo want something radical, like a long general strike. 8. But life in the nearby black township, a cluster of metal shacks without running water, never came up. 9. Buyers, he said, range from middle-class professional women to the owners of formerly illegal bars and shops in black townships. 10. Can he restore the credibility of the police and control the crime that plagues the country, especially black townships? |