WORLD : 25,000 Demonstrate in S. Africa
About 25,000 blacks demanded clemency for two condemned African National Congress guerrillas today in the largest protest march ever held in one of South Africa’s nominally independent tribal homelands.
The marchers, most of them schoolchildren, paraded peacefully through the center of Umtata, capital of Transkei.
Some carried ANC flags and displayed placards urging the release of two members of the guerrilla movement who are on Death Row in Transkei for a 1986 bombing which killed two people at the Wild Coast Sun, a posh gambling resort overlooking the Indian Ocean.
The homeland’s official radio estimated the crowd at 25,000 and said police did not interfere.
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