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TOM STOPPARD^ PEDESTRIAN ISSUE FRANCIS BACON 25 LAW ON II- lor Mixing^ ar# % § *5? Ramblers fear loss TUESDAY science in Arfedia of forest paths Section 2 Drama out of chaos, page 29^®== Pages 26-27 sr Threat of privatisation, page 6 hlJ3W»7.V#^ South Africa‘tense and chaotic9 as thousands confront police 19 die in gi di weekend and husband and wife who were killed when two vehicles Street struggle: police taking cover after blade gunmen opened fire on them as, right, mourners for Chris Hani. brandishing sharpened staves, march to a memorial service at Katlehong yesterday collided head-on. Rachel Reed, 5. and her sister Maria. 7, died when they were struck by a car which mounted the pavement in NUT shies away from South Bank. Middlesbrough. Cleveland. A child was huiL Angiy blacks seek Three pensioners were killed when their VauxhaO joining national strikes Nova spun into the path of another car after a collision on By John O’Leary, education correspondent the A470. Mrs Eunice Jones. 71. had been driving her sister BRITAIN’S biggest teaching on the mood of knew of dasses of up to 37 Mrs Catherine Pugh. 81. and armed uprising union yesterday refused to join pupils being taught in rooms their brother-in-law John Rob¬ a concerted campaign agamst Carole Regan, a leading built for 22 children. erts. 81, to their homes in From Michael Hamlyn murder weapon had allegedly the government by public left-winger, urged the confer¬ Anita Wright a head teach¬ Aberangell on the Powys- IN JOHANNESBURG ■ Although ANC leaders want to turn been stolen from the South sector workers, as its leader¬ ence to follow the example of er from Wandsworth, south Gwynedd border after an African air force. ■ ship struggled to contain the rail and mining unions in London, told delegates that Easter chapel service. TENS of thousands of black- anger at the murder of Chris Haul into Police fired rubber bullets to plans for industrial action in calling strikes. However, two the strict implementation of A father and daughter and a protesters took to South Afri¬ days of mass demonstrations, younger disperse a crowd which had schools. attempts to organise concerted tiie policy would “dose every husband and wife died in a can streets yesterday as black burnt down a house belong¬ . Left-wingers won a series of inter-union action were reject¬ primary school that exists”. head-on crash in Wooding- anger at the assassination of elements are rejecting calls for peace ing to a police sergeant in votes for action at the annual ed by large majorities. Steve The union's guidelines limit dean. Brighton. Police said an Chris Hani boiled over into Kadebong. The crowd of conference of the National Sinnott, a member of the practical lessons to 20 pupils open-topped Westfield "kit" calls for arms to be taken up about 200 people was return¬ Union of Teachers in Brigh¬ NUTs executive, said other and call for further reductions car had gone out of control against whites. The rally ended peacefully Katfehong, Tfaokoza and ing from Ham’s Boksburg ton. But calls for national unions were rejecting the strat¬ in dasses containing pupils At liphook. Hampshire. Shots were fired fay blade with the crowd marching back Tsikane. as protesters began to house when it began stoning strikes Tint term against re¬ egy of joint action and mem¬ with special educational Mrs Emma Robinson. 22, radicals, police were stoned to the township, shouting and set vehicles alight Security the Katlehong police station, dundancies and performance- bers would not support an needs. died when her car left the road and vehicles set ablaze. “The singing freedom songs. force reinforcements were breaking the windows of related pay were rejected. early strike over pay. Responding to the decision and a driver who was killed situation is tense and chaotic,” A thousand blacks, many rushed to the townships as buildings and vehicles. The Delegates will decide today The left’s main success was by teachers to ballot on when his car hit a tree on the Brigadier Frans Malherbe, a carrying spears and axes, angiy youths tried to bum crowd then went on to set fire, whether to include strikes in to win a dose vote on a policy Whether they should refuse to A441 near Redd itch, was police spokesman, said. marched on Ham’s home in a police trucks, delivery vans to the house. The terrified their campaign aver pay. and of non-cooperation with ap¬ teach dasses of more than 30 named as Dennis Bryce, 40, Despite efforts by the lead¬ suburb of Boksburg, near and private cars. inhabitants of Boksburg were whether to ballot on a boycott praisal, which the union fears pupils. John Patten, the edu¬ from Birmingham. ers of both blades and whites In Katlehong a number of visited by more than five of teacher appraisal schemes. will be used to determine cation secretary, said last The AA said the roads were to contain the violence, fears black and white reporters and thousand marchers from vari¬ The NUTs executive is expect¬ performance-related pay. But night “This is very sad news. “generally quiet”. But traffic rose last night that anarchy television crews were fired on ous townships anxious to pay ed to reject its pay strategy the decision is likely to be Parents, and many teachers, had been heavy on routes to could destroy hopes of arriving as they tried to film a blazing their respects to the dead rather than accept the boycott overturned this afternoon if can only be dismayed by all the south coast- at peacefully negotiated polit¬ truck. Juda Ngwenya, a pho¬ leader. There were ironic cheers when the executive sacrifices its own this further talk of boycotting ical reform. tographer for Reuters news In Cape Province, where the plans, which include strikes and industrial action.” ignorance Mamed, page 3 Leaders of the African Nat¬ agency, said he was “nearly worst of violence broke out at overpay. ional Congress and its allies killed”, but that no one was the weekend, the townships John O’Leary looks at die Doug McAvoy, the general have made plans to channel injured. were mainly quiet A blade array of left-wing groups vying secretary, said last night that their followers’ anger into Two white men were man was killed during an for NUT influence, page 2 the union’s officers were reluc¬ several days of mass demon¬ farmed to death outside a exchange of shots between tant to risk defeat in a ballot strations. But younger leaders shebeen at Lwandle township police and demonstrators in over appraisal for fear of of the ANC rejected tfte peace 25 miles from Cape Town on •the Chicken Farm squatter Rod Whitworth, from encouraging school governors Sunday. A third white man, Manchester, protested that the to misuse the system. The SCHOOL FEES calls at one mass rally, in the camp in Soweto on Sunday. Pretoria township of Manv- who was also set alight and Those urging calm yester¬ left’s plans would commit the NUT accepts appraisal where elodi. They demanded to had his tongue cut during the day pointed raft that more union to campaign on general it is given guarantees that the know how they could be same attack, died of his inju¬ people died in the violent levels of public sector pay. results will be used for profes¬ expected to act responsibly in ries yesterday. In a broadcast. storms which struck die Cape rather than those of teachers sional development only. FROM £20 The face of the assassination on Archbishop Desmond Tutu Province and Natal at the alone. He told delegates: “If Mr McAvoy said that the Saturday of Hani, general condemned retaliatory mur¬ weekend than in the political you believe there is a mood of resounding defeat for col¬ secretary of the South African ders and appealed to blacks violence. The storms broke militancy where teachers want laboration with other public Communist party, which was for restraint, declaring: down sea wails and caused die to take action on pay this term, sector unions demonstrated A WEEK. blamed by sweral speakers on “Please; please dear people, dosure of Cape Town’s inter¬ it’s in your dreams.” that the support for a boycott the government Murder protester with we don’t help our cause by national airport, as well as of In the tense struggle to set of testing was not politically “It is time we told the the front-page news actions of that kind." die railway that runs along the the union’s agenda for the motivated. “No one can say A SMALL SUM The ANC last night de¬ Cape peninsula to Simons- coming year, defeats for the now that we are engaged in an leadership that enough is all-out campaign against the enough.’’ one speaker said. Johannesburg, where the al¬ manded an international in¬ town. Three homeless people executive mingled unpredict- “Now is the time to hit bade* leged assassin. Janusz Wahis, vestigation into Haiti's killing, died of exposure, and another ably with convincing votes for Tories.” he said. TO PAY FOR YOUR man was killed when a tree fell The conference did agree to Speakers from the ANC Youth 40, appears in court today. saying an open and fair enqui¬ moderation. The rare show of unity take action on the growing League and student wing ANC youth leaders told the ry could not be conducted by on him. CHILD’S FUTURE crowd “We want power. We “the same corrupt forces Com¬ within the NUT on the issue of number of dasses containing called for a boycott of white Right condemnation, page 11 i a testing boycott proved short more than 30 pupils.

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