The high-tension wires were lightning held forever, blazing, a threat above the unslept houses.

In Hillcrest, a restaurant customer was struck by two bullets and paralyzed from the waist down in a drive-by shooting committed by the husband of a waitress.

But the greatest racial insult available to South Africa's racists is one with numerous variations of meaning: the K word.

In the second type only two separate meristem tissues are present in the tips of the roots ; a pleroma and a common tissue, from which the primary bark and epidermis and root-cap proceed.