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       Police Fire Stun Grenades at Striking S. African Parliament Staff

   by Reuters

   Anti-riot police fired stun grenades to disperse scores of striking
   parliamentary workers demanding higher pay outside South Africa's
   assembly building on Wednesday.

   Officers in full body armour carried away members of the National
   Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu), a powerful public
   sector organization aligned with the ruling African National Congress
   Party.

   "The police must go," chanted union members massed on the front steps
   of parliament's second house, the National Council of Provinces,
   witnesses said.

   Much of parliament has been shut down for the past three days during
   the protest over a bonus payment and a state security vetting process
   targeting workers and management.

   Television images showed police and some workers scuffling outside
   parliament in Cape Town.
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