21.   Under the new rules, such quotas are illegal and if the schools have space, they must accept black pupils.

22.   White parents opposed to integration, or simply fearful that trouble would break out, have kept their children home since the first black pupils arrived for classes Thursday.

23.   Yet they have private boards that set policy and can freeze out black pupils.

24.   In the four years preceding the election, many black pupils flocked to former whites-only schools in the suburbs leaving township schools carrying below capacity numbers.

25.   And black pupils were Friday ordered by four influential education bodies to go back to school after weeks of disrupted lessons.

26.   The protests came as whites in the working class suburb of Ruyterwacht said they would not allow black pupils to use an empty school in their area.

27.   The school protests follow racial clashes in the white working class suburb of Ruyterwacht, where right wingers have prevented black pupils from making use of an empty school.

28.   Twenty-three black pupils were seen going into the school, where they gathered in the library and appeared to be relaxed and talkative.

29.   White parents initially said that the black pupils did not speak Afrikaans sufficiently well and would consequently hinder teaching for the other pupils.

30.   Most common was the charge that black pupils were turned away from schools after being told that they were full while white pupils were still being accepted.