Alighting in Diepkloof, a middle-class neighborhood of the vast black metropolis, they strolled the streets, gawking and being gawked at.

Finding the woman unattractive and the prospect of a career in tribal government even more so, he ran away from home and hid in the black metropolis of Soweto.

His fascination with the black metropolis sparked some of his greatest work, which took on an even more extreme simplification of form and turned away from the dense paint application of his European period.

In Soweto, the largest black metropolis, the Government has agreed to deed rental housing to the occupants and charge a flat rate of $12.50 a month for water, sewage and other city services.

Roelf Meyer, President F. W. de Klerk's boyish-looking Minister of Constitutional Affairs, arrives on his first campaign visit to the largest black metropolis in South Africa.

But after 1905 overproduction of apartments in Harlem caused owners to open hitherto white-only buildings to blacks, and by the 1920's Harlem was well on its way to becoming its own black metropolis.

Indeed, in all of Soweto, a black metropolis inhabited, according to the census, by 837,731 people and, according to anyone who lives there, by as many as 5 million, there are exactly eight basketball courts.

The Sophiatown described by whites is a different place, a slum where poverty bred crime, and from which most residents were happy to be removed to the budding black metropolis of Soweto.

The Sowetan, the daily newspaper serving the largest black metropolis, was more ambiguous in its assessment.

Resettled in the vast black metropolis outside Johannesburg, she set up her own office, built her own following, spoke her own mind.