The World - News from Oct. 3, 1989
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About 25,000 demonstrators demanded clemency for two condemned African National Congress guerrillas in one of the largest protest marches ever held in one of South Africa’s nominally independent tribal homelands. The marchers, most of them schoolchildren, paraded peacefully through Umtata, capital of Transkei. They demanded the release of two anti-apartheid ANC guerrillas who are on death row in Transkei for a bombing in 1986 that killed two people at a gambling resort. The protest came a day after Transkei’s military leader, Maj. Gen. Bantu Holomisa, said he would consider holding a referendum to let homeland voters decide if they want to rejoin South Africa.
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