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...came into question when it ordered three CBS newsmen expelled from the country the same day. The charge: "flagrant contempt" of a court order banning the presence of television cameras at a mass funeral for 17 of the 23 blacks killed during four days of violence in the black township of Alexandra, outside of Johannesburg. The evictions, said CBS Johannesburg Bureau Manager William Mutschmann, one of the three newsmen, would "severely curtail CBS's ability to cover the South African story...
South Africa's black leaders were less sanguine. While welcoming the end of the emergency, they warned that without substantive changes in the system, lifting the decree would do little to reduce tensions. "Political adversaries will continue to be detained, banned and harassed, and township communities will continue to suffer from the depredations of the security forces," said the Detainees' Parents Support Committee. "It now seems that we are about to enter an era of intensified political repression through supercharged security legislation that will confer permanent emergency powers...
...news conference and in separate interviews, freed prisoners spoke of assault and deprivation, tear gas and water-hosings. One of them, 24-year-old Sidney Molekane from Johannesburg's Black township of Soweto, said he was suspended from a broomstick with his hands and feet cuffed together and spun around...
Home Minister Stoffel Botha said that, in shooting and broadcasting film of the funeral Wednesday in the black township of Alexandra, the network acted in "flagrant contempt" of a court verdict upholding a police ban on cameras at the scene. CBS and other networks had asked the court to cancel the prohibition...
...throng packed a soccer stadium in Alexandra, a squalid Black township wedged among the richest white suburbs of Johannesburg. In the crowd were Black activist Winnie Manela and diplomats from seven Western nations, including the United States...