70. The Durban riots, 1949
… consequent loss of life and property was officially given as follows: deaths; 142 (87 Africans, 50 Indians, 1 white and … of law and order stood by, almost helplessly it seemed, as the Africans swept forward in their savage march, and the … who, in the main, lived almost under the same conditions as the Africans who attacked them. The Ilanga Lase Natal, …