Line-ups formed daily at the land offices as township after township was opened for settlement.
当越来越多的居住区被开放为定居地，人们每天在国有土地管理局前排队。
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That included the train line that ran through the colored township where Mr.Abrahams, the theater worker, lives and Langa, a black township, before reaching downtown.