Tag: political violence

VISIT TO SOWETO_INSIDE THE NECKLACE Pointless deaths but real victims

By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers, Wednesday | April 6, 1994 SOWETO—He was an unidentified man, a weekly newspaper reported, and lucky for him that the police and paramedics came along when they did. He was walking past the Dube Hostel, a decrepit barracks-like encampment where the so-called Zulu royalists…

May 4, 2009
BLOODIED BUT DEFIANT, SOUTH AFRICANS VOW . . . WE WILL VOTE_BOMBERS DON’T STOP VOTE

By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Tuesday, April 26, 1994 GERMISTON—Dennis Makubela will vote. Someone almost killed him yesterday, but he will vote. Mavis Phungula will vote. Someone almost killed her too, when a bomb—the worst of many that exploded across the country yesterday—destroyed a crowded taxi stand in…

April 21, 2009

VISIT TO SOWETO_INSIDE THE NECKLACE Pointless deaths but real victims