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Even before the hanging, violence had begun to boil up in other parts of the country. In Athlone, a colored (mixed-race) suburb of Cape Town, police and residents engaged in a rare gun battle at a local mosque; one colored man was killed and a white police sergeant seriously...
The rash of suicides began Aug. 12, when a 19-year-old Indian, in jail for public drunkenness, hanged himself with socks taken from a sleeping cellmate. A 16-year-old pallbearer at his funeral became the second victim, using a pair of sweatpants to hang himself from a tree...
The hilariously original satire on the closed-in sensibilities of Tuna's God-fearing Christians doesn't miss any of the familiar small town cliches: bigotry, hypocrisy, xenophobia, catty gossip, and the usual repressed instincts lurking under propriety. Even death in this tumbleweed town is a cause for excitement. Pearl...
This evening students also plan to hold a mock funeral procession and candlelight vigil at Memorial Church to commemorate Blacks who have died in South Africa.
On the domestic front, violence still surged in and around major South African cities. In Johannesburg, blacks rioted in response to a false rumor that ailing Black Leader Nelson Mandela, 67, had died in Pollsmoor prison. In Cape Town, 150 students, parents and teachers were arrested for trying to open...