
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, April 20, 1993                   TAG: 9304200069
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: BOKSBURG, SOUTH AFRICA                                LENGTH: Short

S. AFRICAN REBEL BURIED WITH MILITARY HONORS

After one of the biggest funerals in South African history, the country's leading Communist and anti-apartheid guerrilla was buried Monday next to a white neighborhood with a Roman Catholic priest's benediction and a 21-gun salute from his compatriots.

The funeral for Chris Hani, the black Communist Party leader and key African National Congress figure assassinated April 10 by a white extremist, drew more than 80,000 mourners to a packed Soweto soccer stadium.

South Africans hoped the services Monday would signal the end of 10 days of violent black protests, widespread looting and right-wing attacks that have followed Hani's assassination. - Associated Press

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