Tear-gas at black burial
NZPA-Reuter Johannesburg; The Johannesburg police) have tear-gassed a crowd of 1 more than 3000 young |i mourners at the funeral of all 22-year-old student leader ini: | Soweto, the black township I i near the city. u il The singing crowd had at- < : I tempted to enter a cemetery) Ito watch the burial of Jonasji I'Mzwakhe Machobane, an ex-;i icutive member of the banned ). 11 Soweto Students Representa-l! |tiw> Council who is alleged! ; Ito have been shot by the •'police while escaping a raid; lon a house in Bloemfontein': • two weeks ago. The police i have not given their version lof the incident.
i As the crowd approached ) the cemetery, policemen at (the entrance charged, swingling batons, Teargas was ) hosed at the crowd from a Struck called “the sneeze •machine.” Only about 50 I people were allowed into the | cemetery. | Earlier, armed policemen 'encircled the Methodist; church in Soweto’s Jabavu ; district where a requiem: 'Mass was held for Mr Macho-) I bane, a former student at the; 'Morris Isaacson High School,' I which was at the centre of; student protest during the up-: heaval of black unrest that; began in Soweto in June, '1976.
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