Our own little war in Port St Johns
Our own little war in Port St Johns 28 March 1994, Johannesburg is remembered in South African history as a day of a terrible street battle, when warring factions of ANC supporters and IFP supporters clashed in a terrible fight that claimed lives, maimed healthy young bodies, and brought more shame to South Africa ’s bitter war against itself. The world reacted with horror to the day’s events, and there was global recoil as the bloody scenes were transmitted on television sets across the world. In Port St Johns we knew nothing of what was going on in Johannesburg . We were too busy thinking of our own survival, to tune into the news. We had gotten caught up in the crossfire between the local factions of the ANC and the PAC. It was during what I refer to as the ‘shoot a white days’, pre-elections, T...