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Black pupils storm schools

Friday 17 February 1995 00:02 GMT
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Cape Town - A tourist was stabbed as 10,000 black children flooded into Cape Town to demand places in schools formerly reserved for whites. Youths looted stalls and assaulted passers-by.

Whites in the working class suburb of Ruyterwacht said they would not let black pupils use an empty school. AFP

Leading article, page 16

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