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Maurice Webb & Kenneth Kirkwood

The Durban Riots and After

Published: Institute of Race Relations, Johannesburg, 1950

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Booklet, Institute of Race Relations,card boards, 22 pages, 140 x 215 mm, slight tear to front card, condition: very good.

The Durban Riots were an anti-Indian Riot predominantly by Zulus targeting Indians in January 1949. They resulted in the massacre of predominantly poorer Indians and a total of 142 people died . The Ilanga Lase Natal newspaper lambasted Indians for having 'not only better rights, but a sense of snobbishness and superiority over the Africans'.( SA History Online)

  • Overall Condition: very good
  • Size: 140 x 215 mm


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