The World - News from April 15, 1987

The government-owned South African Transport Services blamed striking black railroad workers for arson attacks on commuter trains that disrupted travel for tens of thousands of Soweto residents. Coaches on 13 trains that serve Johannesburg’s huge black township were set ablaze, but there were no injuries or arrests, the government Bureau for Information said. The South African Railways and Harbor Workers Union, which represents about 16,000 workers engaged in a month-old strike, said it is consulting lawyers “on how to react to statements linking us to clearly illegal acts.”