Land Mine Kills 1 in Violence Before Vote

Anti-government protests erupted across South Africa on Tuesday on the eve of a whites-only election, and there were scattered bombings and firebomb attacks.

A black man was killed and a white soldier seriously wounded in land-mine explosions on the northern frontier, two bomb blasts shook Johannesburg and security forces used birdshot and tear gas to rout black rioters around Durban.

There were also scattered incidents near Cape Town on one of the worst days of political unrest since the government declared a national state of emergency last June.

In the worst incident of violence, the black man was killed and 10 people were wounded when a land mine blew up a truck near the Limpopo River border with Zimbabwe, the government said.