S. African riot police movein
NZPA-Reuter Cape Town The death tollTh A® hours of renewed violence in black townships near Cape Town rose to three/yesterday and riot police* have moved in, the police have reported. A man was killed and another injured-when a petrol) bomb was thrown at a lorry on Tuesday night (local! time) in an area where two white motorists were stoned and burned to death the previous day.
The police earlier used tear-gas. and baton charges to disperse .stone-throwing youths. The police blamed the trouble on hooligans inciting black schoolchildren who are boycotting classes in the Cape. In Bloemfontein, the Police Minister. (Mr Louis ie Grange) appealed to the South African press not to give further publicity to what he called nameless or secret committees or organisations.
He specifically mentioned the so-called “Committee of 81” claiming to control the schools boycott movement in the Cape and a “Committee of War Resistance” encouraging young people to avoid national service.
Mr le Grange said this committee was controlled by the banned African National Congress and the outlawed South African Communist Party.
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