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December 31, 1990, Monday, Home Edition

Part A; Page 14; Column 2; Foreign Desk

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POLICEMAN, 4 OTHERS DIE IN NATAL PROVINCE

By United Press International

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa

A policeman and four civilians were shot or stabbed to death in political and factional black violence in strife-torn Natal province, police said Sunday.

The violence followed an outburst of fighting in black townships of the Indian Ocean province on Friday that left 12 people dead in the most serious clashes since Christmas Day.

Wire

NATAL PROVINCE (SOUTH AFRICA); RIOTS -- SOUTH AFRICA; BLACKS -- SOUTH AFRICA