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On Booth Road in Cato Manor, “Indian buses were burned and ... Some people called the events a riot, others a pogrom. Whatever the terminology, in time the three awful days became a literal ...
In 1959, the apartheid government's attempts to move African people from Cato Manor to KwaMashu were met with stiff resistance. B oycotts of the government-controlled beer halls led to liquor raids ...
Durban - 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 ...
The riots quickly spread to the Asian quarter ... 800 women besieged another beer hall, while at Cato Manor the mob of rioters swelled to more than 3,000. When men were seen joining the women ...
PHOTO GALLERY: 1991 Crown Heights Riots The rioting began Aug. 19 of that year after a 7-year-old black boy, Gavin Cato, was struck and killed by a driver belonging to the ultra-Orthodox Lubavitch ...
Twenty-five years after the Crown Heights riots broke their families apart, Carmel Cato and Norman Rosenbaum will meet again. Cato, 63, who lives in Mill Basin, Brooklyn, lost his 7-year-old son ...
DURBAN - Two people died after a retaining wall collapsed during Saturday night’s heavy rain in the Nkanini informal settlement in Cato Manor. The eThekwini Municipality said its Disaster ...
Jews said it was anti-Semitism, pure and simple. Norman Rosenbaum and Carmel Cato prefer to say the riots were the result of angry racists taking advantage of a situation, and a failure by law ...
With the 25th anniversary of the Crown Heights riots approaching, I’ve been thinking about my role in forging that friendship. Carmel Cato and Norman Rosenbaum were the least likeliest of people ...
"He lost his brother, I lost my son," Cato said. Gavin was killed by a Jewish driver, and hours later Norman's brother was murdered at the start of the riots. "You never compare tragedies and ...
Carmel Cato (left) and Norman Rosenbaum reunite on the 25th anniversary of the Crown Heights Riot at Essen NY Deli. Gabriella Bass For 25 years, they’ve been friends, the father of seven-year ...