Demonstrations By Africans
DURBAN, June 22.
Police used tear gas bombs against African women demonstrators at Kwa Mashu township today while 10,000 Africans staged a bus boycott at Clermont township 15 miles from Durban.
The two incidents, the first to break a lull after last week’s riots in which four Africans were killed, had different causes. The bus boycott was in protest against Durban Municipality’s proposed expropriation of freehold land in Clermont to establish a bus subdepot. About 400 African women warned would-be travellers that if they used the municipal buses they would do so “at their own risk.” The demonstrators were noisy, but not violent. Police were drafted to the spot as a precautionary measure. Most workers went to the nearby white village of Pinetown where they caught trains, Indianoperated buses, or taxis. The 200 women dispersed with tear gas were protesting against water-meters in the modern township of Kwa Mashu, where Durban is trying to resettle some of the 80,000 Africans of the city’s squalid native quarters.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28929, 24 June 1959, Page 15
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