Shanty town counts dropped
NZPA-Reuter Cape Town South Africa dropped charges yesterday against a prominent white clergyman and 142 black women squatters, who were arrested outside Parliament during a protest against the razing of thousands of shanty homes.
The State gave no reasons for dropping the charges when lawyers announced the decision to the women crowded into a Cape Town magistrate’s court.
The women, from the
Crossroads squatter camp, and the Dean of Cape Town, the Very Rev. Edward King, were charged with attending an illegal gathering. Charges against Dean King, who was also accused of assaulting a policeman at the demonstration, were dropped in a separate hearing yesterday.
Dean King and the women were arrested in June at a demonstration outside Parliament in Cape Town.
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