IFP commemorates Shell House shootings.

Date: 28 Mar 1996
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

Thousands of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters marched through the streets of Johannesburg to mark the anniversary of the 1994 Shell House shootings during which eight IFP supporters were killed by the security guards at the African National Congress (ANC) Shell House headquarters. The threat of demonstrators to defy a government ban on the carrying of traditional weapons, while police had stated their intention to enforce the ban, raised fears of clashes between police and demonstrators. In the face of the huge crowds the police relented and allowed demonstrators to brandish banned weapons.

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01Keesing's Record of World Events, News Digest for March 1996, p 40985.

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