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Article: Taxis Give Blacks a Chance at the Driver's Seat
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 18, 1988
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As dusk settles over the quickly emptying city and a crush of
white office workers heads in gleaming BMWs and Mercedes for the M-1
expressway and the manicured suburbs of northern Johannesburg,
another migratory ritual is played out almost unnoticed in the
opposite direction.
Huge crowds of black workers spill off the sidewalks of Sauer and
Bree streets, frantically pointing fingers in the fading light.
Nothing is said, but the language is understood: A "V" sign means
the intended destination is Sharpeville or another black township in
the Vaal River triangle south of Johannesburg; fingers circled mean
Orlando, in Soweto.
Long lines of commuters, stretching for a block or more, slowly ...