Four shot
NZPA-Reuter Johannesburg The South African police said they had shot dead four black men in the 24 hours after the President, Mr Pieter Botha, made a conciliatory appeal to blacks to negotiate about the troubled country’s future. A police spokesman also said a white man had been seriously Injured while trying to arrest three blacks who had petrol-bombed a department store in a whitesonly city.
The police said two black men had been killed by shotgun-fire at Wesselton, eastern Transvaal, after they barricaded a road and attacked a police patrol.
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Press, 3 February 1986, Page 6
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