FT924-4946 _AN-CK3BQAARFT 921130 FT 30 NOV 92 / S African golf club attack leaves 4 dead By PATTI WALDMEIR and REUTER JOHANNESBURG, MAMELODI, TRANSVAAL BLACK gunmen hurling hand grenades killed four whites and injured 17 other people attending a South African wine-tasting party at the weekend, the first significant incident of racial terrorism against whites since negotiations began to end apartheid. A government spokesman said South Africa was 'shocked and horrified' by the attack, which took place at a golf club in the white Cape Province settlement of King William's Town, as well as by other incidents in which 21 more people were killed at the weekend. The golf club attack will deepen the mood of gloom which has set in among whites as constitutional negotiations have faltered, and could provoke a violent backlash from right-wing whites who oppose negotiations. Police clearly fear such a backlash, and yesterday called for 'maximum restraint' from the public. Police have offered a R50,000 (Pounds 11,000) reward for information leading to arrests in the golf club incident, much more than is normal for incidents involving black victims. The government official said the King William's Town attack, the murder of four members of a white family in a robbery, and the deaths of 14 blacks in other violence, introduced 'a harsh and discordant note' after recent tentative signs of progress in negotiations. The African National Congress (ANC) and the government are to meet later this week for the first formal constitutional talks to be held for over six months. Local ANC officials condemned the golf club attack, describing it as an attempt by unidentified forces to foment violence in the region, which includes the volatile black homeland of Ciskei. Police said five attackers hurled grenades into the club's bar and dining areas and started firing rounds with South African R-4 or R-5 automatic rifles into guests, killing two white couples and wounding 17 people, mostly whites. 'The scene was one of devastation. . .absolute carnage,' said Mr Ray Radue, a member of parliament for the ruling National party who attended the function, held at the town's multi-racial golf club. Mr Nelson Mandela, the ANC president, yesterday assured South Africa's white soldiers, policemen and civil servants they would not be cast aside by a new non-racial democratic government, Reuter adds from Mamelodi, Transvaal. 'No-one will be thrown into the street, existing contracts will be respected,' he said. In the same speech he acknowledged that ANC guerrillas were being given military training in Asian and western countries. He said he had kept the government fully informed. The Financial Times London Page 6