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Duncan Village

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Violence erupted in Duncan Village, outside East London, following the funeral of slain Durban-based UDF leader Victoria Mxenge in nearby Rayi villageon 11 August 1985. Returning mourners carried out arson attacks on various buildings including the rent office, schools, a beerhall, a bottle store and a community centre. That evening, rampaging youths swept through the Ziphunzana area of the township, singing freedom songs. All six community councillors' homes were burnt down and homes of police officers and suspected collaborators were also attacked. Violence continued on the following days with looting and burning of commercial and delivery vehicles, and running battles between youths and members of the security forces, who resorted to deadly force to restore order in the area, arresting many injured people as they were being treated at a local church aid centre. Five people were dead by 14 August. By 16 August, the toll had risen to 19 people dead and 138 injured.

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Was shot by members of the SAP during intense public unrest in Duncan Village, East London, on 13 August 1985. See Duncan Village.
A UDF activist who was shot dead by members of the SADF during intense public unrest in Duncan Village, East London, on 13 August 1985. See Duncan Village.
Was assaulted and dumped on a waste disposal site by members of the SADF in Duncan Village, East London, in October 1985, allegedly because he broke a curfew imposed on the area. See Duncan Village.
Was shot by members of the SADF in intense public unrest in Duncan Village, East London, on 11 August 1985. See Duncan Village.
An ANC supporter who was shot when SADF members opened fire on demonstrators during intense public unrest in Duncan Village, East London, in August 1985. See Duncan Village.
Was shot and injured by members of the SAP during protests in Duncan Village, East London, on 28 November 1986. See Duncan Village.
Was shot by members of the SADF during intense public unrest in Duncan Village, East London, in October 1985. Ms Voyiya was pregnant at the time. See Duncan Village.
He died after inhaling teargas fumes when members of the SAP threw a teargas canister into the shack in which he was sleeping in Duncan Village, East London, on 11 August 1985, during intense public unrest in the area. See Duncan Village.
An ANC supporter who was shot dead by members of the SADF during intense public unrest in Duncan Village, East London, on 13 August 1985. See Duncan Village.
She died after she was tortured and ‘necklaced’ by ‘comrades’ in Duncan Village, East London, on 6 January 1986. She was accused of bewitching her brother who had died three months earlier when he was run over by an SADF vehicle. Her mother was also killed in the incident. ...
Was shot dead by members of the SADF during intense public unrest in Duncan Village, East London, on 13 August 1985. The soldiers alleged that Mr Zwelifile had thrown stones at them. See Duncan Village.
Was blinded in one eye after he was shot by members of the SAP during intense public unrest in Duncan Village, East London, on 12 August 1985. See Duncan Village.
A Duncan Village Residents’ Association member, who was shot dead by members of the SADF during intense public unrest in Duncan Village, East London, on 13 August 1985.
An ANC member from Duncan Village, East London, was shot dead on 9 December 1982 in an attack by SADF Special Forces operatives on several ANC houses and a block of flats in Maseru, Lesotho. Mr Fazzie was an ANC courier who had arrived in Maseru the night before the attack. Thirty South Africans ...
A member of the SAP who lost his home in an arson attack by UDF supporters in Duncan Village, East London, on 18 November 1986. See Duncan Village.
A member of the East London Youth Congress who was seriously injured when the vehicle in which he was travelling was run over, allegedly deliberately, by a police Casspir in September 1985 in Duncan Village, East London. See Duncan Village.
He died after he was severely beaten by members of the SADF during intense public unrest in Duncan Village, East London, on 14 August 1985. See Duncan Village.
A scholar who was shot and severely injured by members of the SAP during political conflict in Duncan Village, East London, in March 1985. See Duncan Village.
Was shot dead by members of the SAP during intense public unrest in Duncan Village, East London, on 13 August 1985. See Duncan Village.
Was shot by members of the SAP during intense public unrest in Duncan Village, East London, on 13 August 1985. See Duncan village.
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