Bishops plan to talk on support for Tutu
h / !Hi r * NZPA-Reuter ( Johannesburg Anglican bishops and an envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury scheduled a meeting in Johannesburg today to plan support for Archbishop Desmond Tutu in his conflict with the South African ! Government. Bishop Keith Sutton from the central England diocese of Lichfield told reporters in Cape Town yesterday that the Archbishop of Canterbury, wanted Pretoria to know that Bishop Tutu had the backing of ! (Anglicans round the world. j “To touch ;! Desmond
||T‘ isn’t i just to touch an individual, but it is to touch the integrity of; Christian people , througnbut the world, ’ he said! Tlie planned peeting in Johannesburg comes after a protest strike by hundreds'of thousands of blacks yesterday to mark the twenty-eighth anniversary! of the Sharpeville massacre ( where the police shot and killed 69 black; demonstrators in 1960. ! Factories, , shops: and businesses reported a work stoppage (by up to 90 per; cent of black staff throughout Johannesburg and, in eastern Cape Province (round the Indian
I j : !»■ ■f : r !!. ■■■ i I‘i . I ; ! Ocean city of Port Elizabeth. | H The State-run Railways said 15,000. black staff failed to report for work and trains from ( Sbwjetb carried only a fraction of their ( normal passenger ( lo ad.n'H} JHThe police turned out in force at railway j stations and bus depots tol protect blacks ( defying a strike call made in an' i anonymous (pamphlet 11 distributed mainly in Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth! ! i I J'' ' <|;U ' I Government censorship regulations imposed under d 22-mbnth state of emergency forbid a full report on the strike cal|.' I I
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