WORLD : Protests in S. Africa Broken Up
South African police broke up two anti-apartheid marches today, dealing a blow to President Frederik W. de Klerk’s reformist image just hours after his new Cabinet was sworn in.
While the 16 men and one woman entrusted with making De Klerk’s apartheid reforms work took their oaths of office in Pretoria, riot police broke up a march of students and teachers in the Indian Ocean city of Durban, arresting 38 demonstrators.
In Johannesburg, police armed with tear gas confronted thousands of students chanting freedom songs as they tried to march from the main campus of the city’s Witwatersrand University to protest the detention of four colleagues.
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