Sentence examples for sprawling township from inspiring English sources

Magodzho lives in poverty-stricken Katlehong, a sprawling township 35km from Johannesburg.

Soweto, Johannesburg's most sprawling township, was nothing more than a phantom in the bottom left-hand corner of the map, "unmarked, unheeded".

Pieterson, although not particularly politically aware, had joined his school friends to march through the dirt streets of the sprawling township to a local stadium.

Among her efforts was a campaign stop here in Soshanguve, a sprawling township north of Pretoria, where the blue T-shirts of the Democratic Alliance were previously seen as rarely as long-tailed tuxedos.

Less than a year after Mr. McGreevey nearly beat Governor Whitman in 1997, his sprawling township emerged as the leading candidate for a new institution to house 300 sexual predators.

Seeking a walking town with a sense of community for their three children, ages 4, 2 and 3 months, they moved from nearby East Brunswick, a sprawling township with no main street.

Leaders in sprawling townships including Soweto, Alexandra and Orange Farm have encouraged people not to pay electricity and water bills.

The man promised jobs, better schools and new houses for the hundreds of thousands of people crammed into the Cape Flats, the sprawling townships built by the apartheid government.

There was major growth in Middlesex County, a strikingly diverse place that includes older urban centers like Perth Amboy, booming South Brunswick and sprawling townships like Edison, with its surging Asian population.

Tour guide Jeff Mulaudzi lives in Alexandra, one of Johannesburg's sprawling townships.

Hoping to make a similar transition is Jeff Mulaudzi, who runs tours of Alexandra, one of Johannesburg's sprawling townships.