World : S. Africa Bans 4 More Groups

The government today banned four more anti-apartheid groups, raising to more than 30 the number of organizations curbed by state-of-emergency regulations this year.

Two of the latest targets were teachers’ organizations--the predominantly black Democratic Teachers Union and the mixed-race Western Cape Teachers Union--and a third was a Cape Town-area student group that coordinated anti-government protests earlier this year. The fourth banned group was the National Detainees Forum, established in July to carry on detainee monitoring work that had been conducted by the Detainees Parents Support Committee before it was banned in February.