Word: kraaifontein
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Dates: during 1985-1985
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...week pointed toward continuing intransigence and spreading violence. One evening a crowd of about 60 mixed-race youths, known in the lexicon of South African racism as colored, made their way from the township of Scottsdene on the eastern fringes of Cape Town to the adjoining white suburb of Kraaifontein. There they roamed through the streets throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at the well-kept homes before being driven away by white residents who fired at them with pistols and shotguns. Later, police arrested two young men who had been wounded in the ^ shooting. The significance of the incident...
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