The World - News from Nov. 17, 1988
The South African government pledged to crack down on right-wing extremists after a shooting rampage Tuesday in downtown Pretoria by a white supremacist left six blacks dead and 15 blacks and an Asian wounded. Defense Minister Magnus Malan said that stricter security measures, including body searches, will be used at public meetings. The suspect, Barend Strydom, 23, was identified as a member of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement. Officers also are investigating an anonymous telephone call to a newspaper by a man who said President Pieter W. Botha might be assassinated if he announced the release of Nelson R. Mandela, the jailed leader of the African National Congress, South Africa’s main guerrilla group.
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