WORLD : 21 Killed in S. Africa Fighting
Twenty-one people, mostly blacks, were killed in weekend political warfare in the bloodiest spillover of factional fighting into South Africa’s industrial heartland, police said today.
Followers of Zulu chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi clashed with backers of the leftist African National Congress after a rally in Sebokeng township Sunday, a spokesman said.
It was the bloodiest such spillover in South Africa’s industrial heartland of factional fighting that has claimed more than 3,000 lives in the eastern province of Natal.
Among those killed was a white police officer stabbed by a traditional Zulu spear, police said.
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