
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 7, 1990                   TAG: 9003071713
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: associated press
DATELINE: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH                                 LENGTH: Short

HOMELAND DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY

The new military rulers of the Ciskei homeland declared a state of emergency Tuesday in a bid to end looting and rioting following their coup that has left 27 people dead and 550 injured.

There were reports of more looting despite the presence of South African troops, who were sent in to quell the violence at the request of the new rulers in Ciskei.

Dissident army officers led by Brig. Gen. Oupa Gqozo staged a bloodless coup Sunday that ousted Ciskei's President Lennox Sebe while he was in Hong Kong on a trade mission.

by CNB