The World - News from July 27, 1987
A black organizer for a group that arranged a controversial meeting between white South Africans and the outlawed African National Congress was found stabbed to death with his hands tied behind his back, police and colleagues said. Eric Mntonga’s body was found in his car outside Thamarha township in the black tribal homeland of Ciskei. Mntonga was a regional co-director for an institute, led by white liberal Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, that seeks to stimulate inter-racial dialogue on South Africa’s future.
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