The word 'townships' is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to refer to a small town or a rural area, often one with local government (or a district). For example: Many small townships in rural areas of the state depend on the tourism industry.
During a recent trip to South Africa, as a finalist in the Guardian International Development Journalism competition, I realised my disfigurement could have been a potential barrier when interviewing case studies in the townships; I had to make the interviewees feel comfortable looking at my face.
"It is telling that some townships in South Africa are just blank spaces on the map," says Brotton. "Mapping is becoming privatised, not even states have the vast resources necessary to compete, and inevitably the usual problem is that Africa comes very low down on the pecking order".
To begin with, black politics should now become more flexible.Although the state of emergency remains in force, and soldiers continue to patrol some townships, many blacks are now ready to be told that their tactics—in particular, the boycotting of white-created political institutions need modification.
He was acquitted of murder.South Africa deployed soldiers into townships near Johannesburg and other hotspots to clamp down on xenophobic violence.
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukIN MAY 2008 frenzy gripped many of South Africa's townships and shanty towns.
Black South Africans, especially, are not keen movie-goers, perhaps because there are few cinemas in the townships where many live.
If African politicians had no other way of spreading the message, the presence of tanks in the townships would do it for them.Africans who stay away from work risk losing their jobs.
In 1989 a giant flying saucer stalled in the sky over Johannesburg and has been hanging there ever since; its occupants, a motley herd of bandy-legged crustaceans, have been crammed into one of the townships once reserved for blacks.
Foreigners are an easy scapegoat, especially Somalis and Pakistanis resented for running successful small shops in the townships.
But drive a bit further out and you find overcrowded black townships and beyond them the sprawling shanty towns where the dirt-poor live in leaky corrugated-iron shacks with no electricity, running water or sanitation.
Lower charges and more branches and cash dispensers in rural areas and townships, along with agreements among banks to share facilities in these areas, could bring perhaps 6m more customers into banks.
