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...races, led by Bishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, marched on Johannesburg's police headquarters last week. There they lodged a protest against the government's six-month-long detention of a black priest. A week earlier 239 demonstrators in a similar march in Cape Town had been arrested; this time policemen simply took names and photographs while the clergymen sang hymns...
...charges of high treason. In all, about 50 blacks are facing similar accusations. Yet the government's attempt to beat down continuing black unrest has seemed only to fan it further: as a result of clashes in the past two weeks, nearly all of them in the volatile Eastern Cape region, more than 40 blacks have been killed...
...Eastern Cape, one of South Africa's major industrial regions, was simmering. Police in armored vehicles patrolled black townships, while groups of black youths waited for a chance to vent their anger. Here and there, buildings smoldered, streets were barricaded. Less than a week earlier, 25 years to the day after the Sharpeville massacre of 69 black South Africans by security forces, the police had gunned down 19 black demonstrators near Uitenhage, 20 miles from Port Elizabeth, the Eastern Cape's largest city...
...session of the three houses of Parliament--for whites, "coloreds" (of mixed race) and Indians--to call for an end to violence. In his televised address, the President also declared, ominously, that he was taking "necessary steps" to restore law-and-order. As he spoke, police in the Eastern Cape reported killing three blacks in clashes with township dwellers...
...days later, the government banned 29 black organizations from holding any meetings over the next three months in 18 districts, mainly in the Eastern Cape. Among the groups was the broadly based antiapartheid alliance known as the United Democratic Front, 16 of whose leaders already face charges of treason. The ban, said the Rev. Christiaan Beyers Naude, an Afrikaner who is general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, was "an act of desperation on the part of the government...