South Africa Police Shootout

(27 Jan 1995) A striking policeman was killed in a shootout with other police in South Africa s Soweto township on Friday (27, 1). Police spokesman LtColonel Joseph Ngobeni said: There was a shootout while police were arresting one policeman, a striker, was shot dead, and one policeman, a member of the dog unit, was injured, Ngobeni said the incident began when about 50 strikers, members of the Police and Prisons Civil Right Union (POPCRU), staged a sitin at the sprawling township s Orlando police station. SHOWS: SOWETO, SOUTH AFRICA, RECENT 27, 1 (16, 1, 95) policeman strike at Orlando police station in Soweto (23, 1, 95) march by members of police and prison civil rights union policeman handing memorandum to regional minister of police, Jessie Duarte (27, 1, 95) cu of placard saying we are on strike policewoman walking toward locked gate policewoman refused entry black and white policeman refused entry black policeman waving at white colleague policemen taki