The basketball court in the Rockville district of Soweto is the color of rubber tires, but the color is betrayed by the harsh slap of bare feet landing. Then more children come after school, and after work, the younger men come for serious sessions, with crowds gathering in the onrushing dusk to watch, their baggy T-shirts filling in the wind. In the morning it belongs to a few of the children who don't go to school. It's a bare slab, anchored and unsinkable, with two skeletons that might have been lookout towers. SOWETO, South Africa- For the million people or more who live in the township there are 10 life rafts like this one. While covering the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa, I took a day to report this basketball story.
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