ner of a dormitory. below the The poverty and harshness recent of life in Soweto breeds a high rate of violent crime — murder, rape, assaults and robbery.
Sowetans But the police rarely interest themselves such their job is to enforce the apartheid laws through style operations catch illegal migrants or to shut down free-enterprise shebeens to revenues from the beer halls.
In are so This is what life is like in prime minister ¡ority — just like it has always up been and always will be as long as apartheid survives. Africa left over after the whites took what they wanted for the Clues. ana profitable large-scale farming.
but according to an commission set up in none them, even if farmed with the most modern iccuuuucs. coull support the population they are For example, one region in by the Zulu 'homeland' Kwazulu could support 13,000 if fully It then had population of 30,000. Today 100,000 live there.
The existing population of the homeland can only make a by working in South In one area of Kwazulu a group of 150 families in the early 1970s was found to receive any lileel 50p to ‡30 a month from family members in the city average they got about to. and their total mon thly income was f8 This meant that in real terms their incomes had fallen over half during the preceding years. Most children suffer from some form ot malnutrition and disease was widespread.
This is what Botha's 'reforms' offer as a future black people of South Africa.
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