Nine to the grave, nine to the gallows
Oct 24, 2020
2 minutes
DUNCAN GUY duncan.guy@inl.co.za
CATO Manor is famous for the race riots of 1949 and the women-led beer hall protests a decade later.
“But what about the slaughter of nine police officers on a patrol to seek out illegal breweries and people violating influx control laws on January 24, 1960?” asks historian Mphumeleli Ngidi.
“Nine and nine,” he pointed out – nine of the nine slain police officers’ attackers
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