Sentence examples for distant townships from inspiring English sources

But the outpouring on Wednesday came from working people, not the destitute, and their protests took place not in distant townships but in the heart of South Africa's cities.

He photographed people of Indian descent forced from their homes by race-based zoning laws; he portrayed people of all races at worship — but the black churches were sometimes makeshift structures of boards and sheets; he rode buses with black workers who spent eight hours a day commuting between distant townships and their jobs in the city.

Elsewhere lay the Africa of the Africans — the natives as they were often called — the distant townships of dust and dirt where water was drawn from a communal spigot, and homes consisted of a single room, and clothes were patched together from scraps of passed-down fabric, and the alleys were full of the stale stench of urine.

SOWETO, South Africa — Since the days of apartheid, when blacks were required to live in distant townships like this, Susan Hanong, a 67-year-old maid, has commuted to the wealthy northern suburbs of Johannesburg, one of the spectral figures trudging through darkened streets on long trips to wash white people's clothes and mind their children.

The particularly harsh legacy of apartheid as it was carried out here has left especially deep scars that still demarcate the geography: whites in the city center and its mountainside inner suburbs, nonwhites in the distant townships on the Cape Flats.

The evenings bring lines of people tramping in the dust to their homes in the distant townships.What of Mr Mugabe?

The railway assaults on Thursday shocked whites as well as blacks, since they marked a significant encroachment of the violence from the more distant outlying black townships into the nominally white city of Johannesburg.

Matshikiza wrote of Home at Last: "It is his eternally original spin on the music, the music of the land, the mountains, the people, the cities, the politics, the sensual violence of the blistered townships, as much as the infinitely distant music of the spheres, which he has brought us closer to in his earlier albums, that drives you through to the final beat.

But when you're living in the dusty, impoverished townships of South Africa, Ibiza's debaucherous beach parties seem like some distant alien planet.

The schools in Tembisa, a black township that dates to apartheid, are so bad that he sends his children to distant suburban schools.

We drive past the deprived Khayelitsha township of Cape Town and I spot a group of children walking to collect water from a distant water pump.