Policeman stabbed
NZPA ‘ • Cape Town A policeman was stabbed to death during a baton’ charge to disperse a black crowd defying a ban on gatherings marking the student riots at Soweto four; years ago, the South African police said yesterday.: The incident late on Sunday r.ight was the worst reported since a twb-week ban on meetings of. more than 10 people •came into effect on Saturday. In other main population areas, such as Johannesburg and Bloemfontein early yesterday, the situation was said to be calm, with blacks reporting for work normally. •In Soweto, Johannesburg’s sp. .wling black Satellite township, many blacks went to work as usual yesterday in spite of appeals for a mass staya.vay to mark the fourth anniversary of the 1976 riots, in which 600 people died: -. • • • , t In Gape Town,' where the school-class boycott movement began, several thousand workers failed to turn up for work, including m-. '.t of the stevedores at the docks.
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