More South African blacks die
NZPA-Reuter Johannesburg South Africa reported the death of eight black people as the black majority stayed away from work on the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising. A Government spokesman said five of the dead were killed in violence among rival groups, while three were killed in security force action. The latest toll brought to 31 the number of people killed since a state of emergency was imposed on the country on Thursday. Bishop Desmond Tutu said the South African Government’s ban on ceremonies marking the anniversary of the Soweto uprising could provoke disorder in the streets.
Bishop Tutu, the Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, said in an interview by telephone with the 8.8. C. that it was “crass insensitivity” on the part of the country’s white minority rulers to ban ceremonies.
Further reports, page 10.
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