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Swanieville attacksExplanation ... according to the SAPS, ‘gone missing.’ 93 On 12 May 1991, twenty-seven people were killed and scores were injured in a pre-dawn attack on Swanieville informal settlement by approximately a thousand IFP hostel-dwellers from Kagiso. There were numerous allegations of police complicity in ... ... died; the Boipatong massacre where forty-five people died). In addition, once attacks were underway, there were repeated allegations (at Boipatong, Swanieville and the Alexandra Night Vigil Massacre) that the police had failed to respond to calls for assistance. In the wake of the massacres, ... ... constitutional talks with the government in May.
A group of about eight hundred alleged IFP supporters attack the squatter settlement of Swanieville on the East Rand on 12 May. Twenty-nine people are killed and over thirty injured.
The Group Areas Act and the Land Acts of 1913 ... ... Alexandra Township. Six members of the IFP were later arrested and appeared in Rand Supreme Court. All were acquitted. f The pre-dawn massacre in Swanieville (West Rand) on 12 May 1991 by approximately 1000 Inkatha hostel residents from Kagiso on residents of the Swanieville informal settlement ... ... related their community’s experience of the conflict between the local youth congress and the vigilante Zim-Zim gang. Relatives of victims of the Swanieville massacre told the Commission how IFP-aligned hostel residents attacked their informal settlement one night. Tembisa (26-28 November ... ... by Inkatha supporters; l the Alexandra night vigil massacre of March 1991, in which fifteen people were killed by Inkatha supporters; m the Swanieville massacre of May 1991, in which twenty-seven people were killed by Inkatha supporters; n The Boipatong massacre of June 1992, in which ... ... attack, Sebokeng on 23 May 1991 (thirteen people killed); g the Alexandra Funeral Vigil massacre on 12 May 1992 (fifteen people killed); h the Swanieville squatter settlement massacre, Kagiso on 12 May 1991 (twenty-eight people killed); i the Thokoza hostel attack in May 1993 (sixteen ... |
