FIGHTING BY TRIBESMEN
(N .Z.PA.-Reuter—.Copyright) DURBAN, Dec. 30. Twenty-six Africans died in battles involving hundreds of assegai-wielding tribesmen in Natal and the Transkei during Christmas week,’end, police reported. The biggest single clash, in which 13 died, involved about 200 tribesmen near Umzinto, 35 miles south of Durban, on Christmas Day. At Pomeroy, also in Natal, two more died in another fight, and 11 others were bludgeoned or hacked to death in tribdl-faction fights in scattered parts of the Transkei, South Africa’s first semi-self-governing black “Homeland.”
The fighting was caused mainly by drunkenness, police said.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32803, 31 December 1971, Page 17
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