Sentence examples for of a township from inspiring English sources

Executive power at the level of local government lies with the elected mayor of a township.

Once inside, they can climb into an old police armoured car and watch footage, shot from just such a vehicle, of a township riot.

This may mean Mr Zhang has a quieter time than Mr Yan (who though retired from village duties is now the general manager of a township fertiliser factory).

Innocence, evil, desire, despair – Can Themba's five-page story is Paradise Lost played out on the bare floor (the empty space) of a township shack.

A 2012 report by the City Press newspaper quoted residents of a township near Cape Town as saying Somali traders are cheaper, friendlier, trade from 5am to 10pm and extend small amounts of credit to regular customers.

Among the specific incidents the report cites was one in Xinning County, Hunan Province, where a resisting farmer cut off the ear of a township party official trying to collect fees.

At Marlboro, which has an enrollment of 1,937 in a township of 32,000 residents, 94percentt of the students go on to college.

But if the thought of "touring" a township sounds like poverty tourism, then what other options are there?

Mr Booysens - a lean, nattily dressed 43 year-old - is the new mayor of Bitou, a township in Western Cape province, 530km (330 miles) from Cape Town.

But if we were a minority of 3 in a township of 1.5 million people, no one around us seemed to find that a problem.

Women with incident pregnancies (N = 66) were identified from a longitudinal cohort of 560 female drinkers in a township of Cape Town, South Africa.