South African strikers halt traffic
Johannesburg - Strikers held up traffic and roughed up a political leader in a bid to pressure last-minute negotiations on a new South African constitution.
But the one-day strike by the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the country's largest union group, failed to generate much support nationwide as shops, banks and mines operated as normal. AP
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