Word: soweto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...endanger public order. It was under this provision that Pretoria announced its ban on mass funerals. Although the ruling applies only to the province of Natal, lawyers in the Transvaal are now pondering whether they could win a similar judgment, which would permit future gatherings to be held in Soweto...
...complex media regulations. The government had earlier conceded that some prohibitions were invalid because the measures had not been published as required by law. As a result, reporters were able to provide detailed accounts when the bloody confrontation that left 24 dead erupted a fortnight ago in Soweto. Last week, as the township girded for further violence, Pretoria issued the most stringent press restrictions yet, this time properly spelling them out in the Government Gazette. Reporters were prohibited from coming "within sight" of any unrest, security action or restricted gathering. Last week's funeral was thus off limits, forcing journalists...
...pieced together from the various accounts, the latest showdown began taking shape on Wednesday, just 24 hours after the government had imposed new restrictions on political gatherings. Police went from house to house in Soweto, displaying the text of the new orders: no mass funerals, no outdoor ceremonies, no flags or slogans, no gatherings of more than 200 mourners. The police asked the families of the dead to sign a paper agreeing to these rules. The families refused. Police then went to the area's mortuaries and warned undertakers not to release any bodies for burial without official permission. When...
...sjambok-swinging youths fell beneath a moving train and was killed. One unconfirmed report said three youths were shot by four men whose car they had tried to force from the highway leading from the township. The unrest forced most people to abide by the work stoppage. In Soweto, road traffic halted and shops remained closed. The Labor Monitoring Group, an independent agency in Johannesburg, reported that 72% of Sowetans who work in manufacturing and 85% employed in the retail sector did not show up for their jobs...
Despite the chaos, mourners steadily converged on Soweto's St. Paul's Church, where the police two weeks ago opened fire on crowds of barricaded youths during the bloody rent strike. As tensions rose last Thursday, Archbishop Desmond Tutu telephoned the church and urged his religious colleagues to call off the planned funeral and have everyone return home peacefully. Bishop Simeon Nkoane promptly conveyed Tutu's message to the people in the streets...