Tag: Xhosa
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VISIT TO SOWETO_A tormented past, uncertain future Poverty, violence crowd out hopes
By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Sunday, April 10, 1994 SOWETO—Seeing this famous black township brings to mind ruins of war, of battle just done. On nighttime approach—home to the Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, and Tswana tribes—the flames of random trash fires send millions of sparks into an eerie sky heavy with the…
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DEMOCRACY MAY BE FACING A DIFFICULT BIRTH
By MICHAEL O. ALLEN and GENE MUSTAIN, Daily News Staff Writers | Sunday, April 24, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—After living much of her life with the perverse indignities of apartheid, voting in South Africa’s historic first all-race elections this week comes down to one thing for Louisa Rakale: “I’ll vote if somebody comes to take me to…