noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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black
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Five people were killed and 10 injured in overnight politically motivated violence in black townships around Johannesburg.
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One night, he found himself with a few other police enveloped in the hatred of a black township uprising.
■ NOUN
violence
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Unhappily-married Cape Town journalist Toni Balser finds true love against a backdrop of gruesome township violence .
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An estimated 5,000 people were thought to have died in township violence since 1986, more than 1,200 of them since August 1990.
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But it did not stop the township violence - 36 blacks were killed just hours before.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the black township of Soweto
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Assistant township manager Michael Solomon said the township had not yet been officially notified of the sale Wednesday afternoon.
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Both agencies, however, said they would move forward with the option the township selects.
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It is now a thriving township of 12,000 people in the heart of the country's best agricultural land.
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The conference also decided to establish defence committees to protect township residents against attack.
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The population of Dronfield township had grown steadily from 1,182 in 1801 to 2,998 in 1861.
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The small townships and villages of the backlands thus lived in isolation, largely self-sufficient and introspective.
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This was then compared with the known user list for each township .
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Wyatt asked what township it was, and the kid said it was Harrisonville, at least he thought so.