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 Lt-Colonel Joseph Ngobeni said: “There was a shootout while police were arresting strikers... 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 sit-in 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