Skip to main content
Menu
♥ Donate
eventREF E-0012726Revised

3 February 1988

Cosatu offices in Durban under attack

Updated
30 Sep 2019
Cosatu offices in Durban under attack

Fighting between Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the United Democratic Front (UDF) supporters spilled into central Pietermaritzburg when the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) offices in the town were attacked by a mob armed with pangas and other weapons. Cosatu and the UDF were seen to be challenging IFP's hegemony in KwaZulu-Natal; and their alleged links with the banned African National Congress (ANC) made them an obvious target of Inkatha and state covert forces.

How we know this

  1. 01SAHO ,"Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)",From: SAHO, [online] Available at: www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed on 8 February 2013]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

Cite this entry

South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Cosatu offices in Durban under attack. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012726

South African History Online (2011) 'Cosatu offices in Durban under attack', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012726 (Accessed: 29 October 2026).

South African History Online, Cosatu offices in Durban under attack [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012726, (accessed 29 October 2026).

"Cosatu offices in Durban under attack." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012726. Accessed 29 Oct. 2026.

South African History Online. "Cosatu offices in Durban under attack." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012726.

Also on 3 February

  1. 1960Macmillan’s 'winds of change’ speech in Parliament
  2. 1961Fierce fighting erupts between pro-Patrice Lumumba troops and UN forces
  3. 1969Retief Goosen is born.
  4. 1969Eduardo Mondlane, president of FRELIMO, dies
  5. 1970Dr. Albert Hertzog is attacked by Ben Schoeman
  6. 1985Desmond Tutu is appointed first Black Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg
  7. 1992De Klerk and Mandela receive UNESCO peace prize
  8. 20001300 Volkswagen workers dismissed for unprocedural strike against NUMSA leadership

Search events by date

What happened on your birthday?
View more events from this day

SAHO is free because readers fund it. Donate →