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Just last Thursday, for example, a riot broke out in downtown Cape Town. A group of Black women gathered to sing songs of protest against the presence of security police in Black townships. It was the lunch hour and many people, white and Black, gathered around. The police moved in first with water cannons and then with dogs, whips and rubber truncheons. At first they attacked only Blacks; later they went after anyone standing in a group, Black or white. Police knocked over and beat cameramen on the scene. Blacks fought back. Some turned cars on their sides to make...
...Issey," asks a friend, standing in a bustling hotel lobby, "how do I work this?" The friend is flapping about in the enveloping intricacies of a new raincoat. "I made it like this," says the designer, improvising a fitting at the front desk. He unbuttons a half-cape that spans the sleeves and puts the loose ends around his friend's neck. "Like a scarf...
...what about this?" says a companion, trashing logic and pulling the cape over the friend's head, buttoning it under the neck to make a watertight hood. The designer looks; his head tilts. "How do you think it?" his friend teases...
...since Black Leader Steve Biko died of brain injuries suffered in a Port Elizabeth prison in 1977. Since then at least 26 black South Africans have died while in detention, 15 of them during the past year. While police officials have repeatedly denied abusing prisoners, a recent University of Cape Town study found that detainees stood an 83% chance of being tortured...
...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 schools shut down by the government since Sept. 6. Near Pretoria, black demonstrators clashed with police, following the funeral of a four-year-old girl killed by security forces...