The World - News from March 30, 1986

Two men were killed and 20 were injured in Durban, South Africa, in a fierce street battle between rival black political groups at the start of a crucial conference on black strategy to confront South Africa’s apartheid system of racial separation and minority rule. The two dead and most of the injured were members of Inkatha, the predominantly Zulu political movement. Armed with spears and clubs, the Zulus attacked about 300 delegates to a national conference on black education. The delegates, who were prepared for a fight, counterattacked with pipes and stones. They drove the Zulus off after 10 minutes of fighting in which several shots were fired.