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...Butler’s Jackson is a place where people live and work in proximity to nature and as part of a township formed over generations....
...The portrait distils a set of differences between South African and African-American modes of blackness, between township and ghetto, extroversion and recalcitrance, or between poverty and wealth....
...Bassist Junius Paul sang measured R&B vocals over orchestrated group stabs; the set ended with the township-inflected “Suite Haus”....
...By far the majority of crime in South Africa affects the black population, particularly in townships and poorer areas....
...Hundreds of people have been visiting Mandela’s homes in Johannesburg – one in the affluent suburb of Houghton where he died, the other in the famous black township of Soweto – day and night to pay homage...
...Andrew Jackson, the first truly populist US president, was Scots-Irish and gave his name to that ornery culture of nonconformism known as Jacksonian democracy....
...“We view this judgement as an attempt to rewrite the South African history which is not desirable and unsustainable,” Jackson Mthembu, ANC spokesman, said in a statement....
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