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Word: tembisa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...labor organization whose offices had previously been raided by police, last week won a court order against such harassment. But the next day police found the bodies of four black railway workers, who had been stabbed and burned, in the Johannesburg rail yards. A fifth body was discovered in Tembisa township, to the east of the city. White officials charged that the five had been killed by blacks for refusing to join the strike. Police once again raided the COSATU offices, this time armed with search warrants, and arrested twelve people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Bashing Heads Before Balloting | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

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