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S. African Labor Chief Detained

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Associated Press

The head of South Africa’s largest labor federation has been detained under the state of emergency, the union said today, warning that the government crackdown could spark widespread strikes.

The president of the mainly black Congress of South African Trade Unions was picked up at his home in Carltonville, a mining town west of Johannesburg, on Friday night, congress spokesman Frank Meintjies said. The union chief, who may not be identified by name under censorship rules, is the most senior labor leader jailed without trial during the state of emergency.

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