South African Trade Union H.q. Raided

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based on Reuter reports

Police raided the offices of the South African Congress of Trade Unions in Johannesburg on August 3. After a 45-minute search they took away 10,000 leaflets which a Congress spokesman said were ordinary organising material, In Pretoria security police, for the second time in a week, raided the home of the chairman of the local branch of the Liberal Party, Mr. Walter Hain,

In Capetown, 46 coloured prisoners escaped from the new Pollsmoor Prison, near Capetown, over the weekend, but 22 were recaptured. The gaolbreak, which took place on Saturday afternoon, is the biggest in the Cape Province for many years. When a warder entered the prison courtyard prisoners stormed the gates, running offin all directions,