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Winnie Mandela returned Wednesday after a nine-year absence to a tearful welcome in the Black satellite city of Johannesburg, but remains a "listed" person who may not be quoted, The Times reported...
...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...
...where the A.N.C. has been most active, is evidence that the group's 24-year-old insurgency campaign has become more aggressive. Indeed, sporadic bursts of violence erupted throughout the country last week. Among the most dramatic: a bomb explosion in a toilet at the main police station in Johannesburg where security suspects are interrogated...
...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...
Hours after it was lifted, however, authorities ordered the expulsion by Tuesday of the CBS Johannesburg bureau manager, William Mutschmann, a U.S. citizen; correspondent Allen Pizzey, a Canadian, and cameraman Wim de Vos, who is Dutch...