The World - News from May 23, 1985
South African police and soldiers moved into the black township of Duduza, 30 miles southeast of Johannesburg, to halt three days of rioting that killed four people, including a white nurse who died of head injuries after she was dragged from her car and stoned. Troops escorted cleaning units that began to clear piles of garbage and dismantle makeshift roadblocks erected by rioting youths. Unrest over the white government’s apartheid policies of racial discrimination have claimed at least 350 lives, all but two of them black, in the last 15 months.
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