The World - News from Feb. 3, 1988

Black schools were closed and workers stayed away from their jobs out of fear for their safety in the violence-torn Pietermaritzburg area of South Africa, the Congress of South African Trade Unions reported. The area has been the site of bloody feuding between the United Democratic Front, a nationwide anti-apartheid coalition, and Inkatha, a more conservative group headed by Zulu leader Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi. Police said that two black women were stabbed to death and another was burned alive in attacks in townships near Pietermaritzburg.