township
town ship
- n an administrative division of a county
- Some township residents have complained that white police authorities often remain on the outskirts, watching to make sure that the violence stays confined to the black community.
- An open-top bus lurches through the South African township of Khayelitsha, the opera Carmen blaring from its loudspeakers.
- At Orlando township in the outskirts of Johannesburg, 20,000 Africans milled around the police station, led by Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, 36, a Methodist-reared university .