The World - News from June 2, 1986
A gang of shovel-wielding black South Africans attacked a black police officer at a funeral and buried him alive, police reported. Constable S.H. Mandlazi, who was wearing civilian clothes, died after he was attacked at Witbank, east of Johannesburg, while attending a funeral. Black policemen have been prime targets of radicals who see them as collaborators.
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