S. Africa Says 8 More Blacks Died in Clashes

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa —  The government Bureau of Information, reversing previous denials, said Monday that eight more blacks were slain in racial violence on Saturday and Sunday, bringing the weekend death toll to 12.

Also on Monday, Heinrich Buettgen, a West German television correspondent, was told to leave the country. He became the fourth foreign journalist ordered out under the state of emergency that began June 12.

Buettgen, 55, correspondent for the ARD network, was told by the Home Affairs Ministry to leave by midnight Thursday. The notification gave no specific reason for the order.

Strict Controls

Under the state of emergency, journalists are forbidden to disclose the actions of security forces or report what the government considers “subversive statements.”

The victims of racial violence reported Monday included three blacks killed in clashes Sunday between militant youths in the huge black township of Soweto and supporters of Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, authorities said.

The authorities said militant youths stoned and hurled a gasoline bomb at buses carrying Buthelezi supporters after the chief held a rally. Two of the victims died when a bus driver jumped from his vehicle with his clothes aflame and it plunged into a crowd. The other, a youth, was stabbed to death by some of the passengers, the Bureau for Information said.

Elsewhere in Soweto over the weekend, two people were stoned to death by fellow blacks, two shot to death by security guards and one stabbed to death, the bureau said.

At least 93 people have been killed since a state of emergency was imposed June 12.

Two Bombs Explode

In another development Monday, two bombs exploded in Westville, a white suburb near the Indian University of Durban-Westville. There were no reports of injuries, authorities said.

No group has claimed responsibility, but authorities usually blame the outlawed African National Congress, which opposes apartheid, for such attacks.

Also on Monday, South Africa’s largest labor federation--the mainly black Congress of South African Trade Unions--said its leader has been detained under the state of emergency. Under the state of emergency rules, the leader may not be identified by name.