FT932-14224 _AN-DDTCVADXFT 930420 FT 20 APR 93 / Restraint marks Hani funeral: Six reported dead - De Klerk condemns ANC protest campaign By PATTI WALDMEIR BOKSBURG SOUTH AFRICA last night appeared to have pulled back from the brink of disaster after the funeral of Mr Chris Hani, the slain black leader, provoked few significant incidents of violence. No event in South African history - not even the release from prison in 1990 of Mr Nelson Mandela, African National Congress leader - has inspired such emotion and mobilised such large crowds. ANC marshalls battled to control 80,000 mourners who packed a soccer stadium near the black township of Soweto and the tens of thousands who drove in a funeral cortege to the white cemetery where Mr Hani was buried. Peace monitors said most of the 100,000 people who participated in the day's events were restrained, with only 200 to 400 youths involved in violence. The monitors had feared the funeral, the largest of many in the history of the liberation struggle, could spark a big explosion of violence. But in spite of stone throwing, arson and looting, the toll of dead and injured was much lower than expected. Six people were reported to have died, with one of them killed by police. Three others were killed by shots fired from a migrant workers' hostel, the sort of incident which occurs almost daily in the low-intensity war between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom party, its main black political rival. Before the funeral began, 19 people died overnight in the black township of Sebokeng, deaths which the ANC blamed on the so-called 'third force' linked to the government security apparatus. Main motorways around Johannesburg were closed for two hours at midday as hundreds of cars and buses travelled to the Elspark cemetery near the multi-racial suburb where Mr Hani lived and died. The motorways were strewn with broken glass for miles, as mourners broke the windows of overcrowded buses. They hung from windows and doors and clung to the roofs and bonnets of buses which crept along the highway toward the cemetery. Some were injured when they fell to the road. Outside the cemetery, a handful of armed members of the the far right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) looked on as an honour guard from Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), the ANC army, paraded outside the graveyard. Most white residents kept a low profile. Speeches by ANC leaders at the funeral and by President FW de Klerk in parliament illustrated the deterioration in relations between the two parties since Mr Hani's death. Mr Mandela and Mr Joe Slovo, chairman of the South African Communist party, delivered militant addresses which blamed the murder on the government. Mr Slovo twice asked the crowd: 'Who killed Chris Hani?', inviting the reply which he received: 'FW de Klerk.' The president warned that the spate of killings which had followed Mr Hani's death (which did not exceed the normal weekly average for 1993) could ignite a race war. With whites more despondent and fearful than at any time in the past, Mr de Klerk condemned the ANC's planned six-week campaign of mass protest action, saying it would 'set the stage for further violence'. Countries:- ZAZ South Africa, Africa. Industries:- P9721 International Affairs. Types:- NEWS General News. The Financial Times London Page 24