The World - News from Sept. 25, 1985
South African police closed three black townships around Cape Town to non-residents and reported that black mobs killed two black men they viewed as government collaborators. A 20-year-old bus conductor was burned alive when his vehicle was attacked by a mob in Cape Town’s Guguletu township, a police spokesman said. In Zwide, a township near Port Elizabeth, a 62-year-old municipal worker “was axed to death” by a large crowd of blacks. More than 30 blacks were arrested after the killing in Zwide.
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