The World - News from Feb. 15, 1989
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South Africa freed at least 17 of the country’s estimated 1,000 political detainees but denied the move was in response to a three-week-old hunger strike by black prisoners demanding freedom. The release was announced by the office of Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok in Cape Town as he met with lawyers for some of the more than 200 hunger strikers. Most of those freed reportedly will be subject to severe restrictions on freedom of movement and speech. Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, an anti-apartheid activist, urged fellow Anglicans to fast three days a week to support the strikers.
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