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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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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.
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.
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.
Was shot by members of the SAP during intense public unrest in Duncan Village, East London, on 13 August 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.
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 ...
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.
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.
An ANC supporter who was shot and partially paralysed by a named perpetrator on 13 August 1985 while he was trying to escape the SADF during intense public unrest at Duncan Village, East London.
An ANC supporter who was detained and tortured in July 1985 in East London. See Duncan Village.
An ANC supporter who was shot by members of the SADF on 11 August 1985 at Douglas Smith Highway in Duncan Village, East London, during intense public unrest in the area.
A South African Youth Congress (SAYCO) member who was stabbed by members of the SADF during intense public unrest in Duncan Village, East London, in October 1985.
Was shot by members of the SADF during intense public unrest in Duncan Village, East London, on 12 August 1985. He was detained and beaten on 24 September 1985 in East London.
A South African Youth Congress (SAYCO) member who was shot in the arm by members of the SAP while he was participating in a toyi-toyi during political unrest in Duncan Village, East London, during August 1985
Was shot by members of the SAP during political conflict in Duncan Village, East London, in April 1990. The police were allegedly firing at people hiding in her flat.
Was shot and injured by members of the security forces during intense public unrest in Duncan Village, East London, on 13 August 1985.
Was shot dead by members of the SAP during intense public unrest in Duncan Village, East London, on 13 August 1985.
An ANC supporter who was shot on 26 August 1986 in Duncan Village, East London, when members of the SADF randomly opened fire on a crowd demonstrating after Griffiths Mxenge’s funeral which had taken place near King William’s Town, Cape.
A UDF supporter who was shot and injured by members of the SADF while she was visiting her father in Duncan Village, East London, during intense public unrest in August 1985.
Was shot by members of the SADF during intense public unrest in Duncan Village, East London, on 13 August 1985.
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