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World IN BRIEF : SOUTH AFRICA : Suspect Detained in Church Massacre

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

A member of a radical black group has been detained in connection with last week’s attack on a Cape Town church that killed 11 whites and wounded more than 50 other people. Police said they were holding the man for questioning. His name was not released. Waters Toboti, a spokesman for the Pan Africanist Congress, told the South African Press Assn. the detained man was a schoolteacher who belonged to the group. No one has claimed responsibility for the July 25 grenade and automatic rifle attack on the multiracial church. Political violence has increased since black and white negotiators set April 27 as the date for South Africa’s first elections including the black majority. On Saturday, 10 people were killed and vehicles were set on fire in the Tembisa black township north of Johannesburg.

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