S.A. Forces office hit by bomb

Press, 28 May 1981, Page 6

S.A. Forces office hit by bomb

NZPA-Reuter Durban A bomb badly damaged South African Defence Force recruiting offices in a shopping centre in central Durban early yesterday but a police spokesman said there were ho casualties. The-, blast was apparently the . latest in ’ a series of sabotage attack's by black nationalist guerrillas during celebrations of the twentieth anniversary of the South African Republic. The police spokesman said the bomb exploded outside the door of the recruiting offices, shattering glass in

the shopping centre up to the eighth floor. A Defence Force spokesman in Pretoria said the offices were unguarded, as they were in a civilian complex and not regarded as a possible target. In Johannesburg, the Police Minister (Mr Louis le Grange) predicted early arrests after sabotage attacks on Tuesday, including the blowing up of railway lines near Johannesburg arid-out-side Durban. ■ Black urban guerrillas also attacked a police station near East London and a policeman was wounded

when he was fired on in the neighbourhood. Violence broke out yesterday at the University of the Wi’twatesrand in Johannesburg for the second day in a row as conservative white students clashed with liberal white students and blacks. Right-wing students tried to disrupt a speech by a black union leader, Samson Ndou. and university security guards with dogs intervened, the South African Press Association reported. The student representative council of the university has endorsed a series of antiRepublic Day events.