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THOUSANDS The fire on number throughout Many warmly endorsed team Thatcher. rugby the rugby tournament.

discriminațion for each boycotting their stead of black South African youth are on the streets in protest against Saturday the racist education system operating in the country. centre.

South African Government have replied with bullets and tear-gas. At least two black youth have already ple were been killed after cops opened demonstrators in a of different towns South Africa. other protesters have been seriously injured.

All this is taking place while the British Lions rugby team South Africa radios. before the left Britain by Dennis And ironically it is which has once more highlighted the racist nature of system. month Prime Minister Botha stepped in to ban two mixedrace teams playing in a school's Behind the protests of the last month is the continuing in the South African education system. The government spends only £30 a year on the education of each black youth, compared to £342 white Tens of thousands of blacks have been schools, and have taken to the streets- inCape Town was the scene of the latest violence when on several thousands demonstrated in a shopping Police baton-charged the youth repeatedly.

A few days earlier a black youth was killed and three peo seriously hurt in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State. Police shot at demonstrators who replied by overturning cars and buses and stoning military vehicles and government buildings. Orders for the police to open fire on the youth were heard on police Police have also fired on demonstrators in Por Elizabeth and Batho. At the start of this month cops in Johannesburg invaded a black school in which pupils were demonstrating. Hundreds arrests have been made and one of the demands of the youth is for the release of all those being held.

Strikers have also been vic. tims of the latest waves of in South Africa.

Black textile workers on strike in Durban over a pay demand were subject to a tear-gas attack by the police on Saturday they were preparing march on their factories.

Socialist Challenge 29 May 1980 Page 13