Victoria Mxenge memorial service attack

Explanation
A memorial service for slain UDF leader Victoria Mxenge was held in the Umlazi cinema on 8 August 1985. Seventeen people were killed and 20 injured when members of the Amabutho, an Inkatha-based 'community guard force', launched an attack on the mourners.

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Volume 3, Chapter 3

... I followed her with an axe and chopped her next to her dining room door.” Malinga also allegedly participated in the attack on the memorial service for Victoria Mxenge (see below). Malinga’s case was heard by the ANC’s People’s Tribunal in Lusaka on 7 May 1990. In addition to the ...

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Volume 2, Chapter 5

... massacre in August 1985 230 On 1 August 1985, Victoria Mxenge, an UDF executive member, was murdered at her home in Umlazi, Durban. A memorial service was held in her honour in the Umlazi Cinema building on 8 August 1985. Whilst the service was in progress, hundreds of Inkatha vigilantes ...

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Volume 5, Chapter 6

... Ngoye massacre) by some 500 Inkatha Youth Brigade members; d the killing of fourteen people by Inkatha supporters at the Umlazi Cinema memorial service for Victoria Mxenge in August 1985; e the establishment in early 1986 of a covert, offensive paramilitary unit trained, armed and paid by ...

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