The World : New South Africa Violence

Angry South African blacks pulled a white man from his car, doused him with gasoline and set him afire just hours after autopsies revealed that 17 of 20 blacks killed by police at an illegal funeral in March were shot in the back. The attack in Uitenhage, near the black township of Langa, where the March incident occurred, was believed to be the first time in over a year of racial unrest that a white has been attacked in a white area. The man, identified as Erasmus Jacobs, 25, of Johannesburg, was hospitalized in critical condition. Police have offered contradictory stories about the Langa incident but basically claim that they opened fire because they were afraid they would be overrun by the demonstrators.