Word: sebokeng
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...Hills in Natal province, where at least 39 die in clashes among feuding Zulus. In the town of Welkom in the Orange Free State, a black mob surrounds a minibus, hacks to death the six black occupants and sets fire to the vehicle. In the southern Transvaal township of Sebokeng, police open fire on a crowd of 50,000 people protesting high rents, killing perhaps eleven. In Katlehong, east of Johannesburg, war erupts among black taxi drivers, leaving at least 25 dead and scores injured...
...South Africa promised by the unbanning of the African National Congress and the release of Nelson Mandela? As the A.N.C. prepared for its first meeting with the government of President F.W. de Klerk -- an April 11 session has already been called off by the A.N.C. in protest at the Sebokeng shootings -- the spiral of violence was forcing Mandela to face a sober reality: that he may have wielded more moral authority as the world's most famous prisoner than he does as a political leader in his second month of freedom...
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