Black pupils storm schools
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
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