Word: herbalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main stores catering to township residents. The new $2.8 million Lesedi City mall, east of Johannesburg, the largest yet built in any urban black area, houses 53 black businesses, including a supermarket, video library, disco and off-track betting parlor, as well as the local witch doctor and herbalist. Says Lesedi City Developer Gray Thathane, 56: "That's the march to freedom...
...lobby, a small group of newcomers ignore the desert vistas and seek out the nurse, the herbalist, the dietician, the three pools, four racquetball courts, six tennis courts and beauty salon. They disperse to the appropriate locker room where, overdressed in clothes, they encounter the smug incumbents. In the women's room, all physical indignities, personal tribulations and great accomplishments are revealed and shared. Shelly, a Chicago mother of two and an architecture student, says, "Being here is most akin to the experience of having a baby...