De Klerk and ANC clash on violence and elections
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In Tembisa yesterday, the ANC youth leader, Peter Mokaba, urged blacks to turn their guns on Mr De Klerk, and drive the police and army out of the townships. The bodies of 255 people killed in township violence are lying unidentified in a mortuary at Germiston, outside Johannesburg, police said. Most of thems were picked up in Katlehong, Tokoza and Tembisa.
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