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Minority Report
Hitchens, Christopher | August 31, 1985 issue

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Soweto is the most populous area of Johannesburg. It is a city in its own right and outnumbers the parent metropolis, but as one drives towards it from downtown Johannesburg it doesn't appear on any road signs. Most of its dwellings have no lights, no telephone, and no running water. The facilities for shopping, medicine, education and transportation are what one would expect, only worse. Apartheid has sown dreadful divisions between tribes and races, even between shades of black. Apartheid cannot, by definition, be reformed or modified. The brave people now fighting to destroy it have grasped the intoxicating idea that theirs may be the last unfree generation.

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APARTHEID; RACE discrimination; EDUCATION; TRANSPORTATION; SOWETO (South Africa); SOUTH Africa
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