Sentence examples for poor township from inspiring English sources

"JOBS, houses and good schools," said a woman in Soweto, a poor township near Johannesburg, when asked what an African recovery plan should be about.

ALEXANDRA, South Africa — All down Fourth Avenue, a main street in this poor township on the outskirts of Johannesburg, the complaints are repeated like catchphrases in a jingle.

Mamello Mokoena, a black comic in his early 20s, opened a recent act by delivering his lines almost unintelligibly, in mangled English and with an accent suggesting he might have grown up in a poor township.

The South African, who received the WTA Tour Humanitarian Award last year after helping victims of Hurricane Katrina, wants to raise over £80,000 to rebuild an overpopulated school in Cato Manor, a poor township on the outskirts of Durban.

Katwe is a poor township outside of Kampala, the Ugandan capital, and it is the hometown of Phiona Mutesi, a chess prodigy played by Madina Nalwanga in her film debut.

Her attackers were young men drawn from Robert Mugabe's militia, armed with knives and slingshots, who rule the streets of Epworth, a sprawling poor township on the edge of Harare.

This reduction of the "liberation dividend" can be seen from the tapering off of the ANC's electoral hegemony and by increased rioting in poor townships.

As many of South Africa's public schools have failed a post-apartheid generation of children from poor townships and rural areas, a budding movement of educators, philanthropists and desperate parents is increasingly searching for alternatives.

Norimitsu Onishi (NYT) ZIMBABWE: ANTI-MUGABE PROTESTS -- Angered by the soaring prices of food, demonstrators in poor townships around the capital, Harare, threw stones, blocked streets and clashed with the police.

Many of the singers were plucked from local choirs in poor townships and put through intensive training at the University of Cape Town's opera school.Although the Gershwins' score is American in its embrace of spirituals, blues and jazz, Mr Williams argues that the work has its roots in Africa.

His audience is just as likely to be black children in poor townships as the theater crowd in Johannesburg or the middle-class Britons and mainly white South African exiles who have packed his latest show, running through Friday in the small and intimate auditorium at the Tricycle Theater in the Kilburn district of North London.