28 May 1980
On 28 May 1980 the schools boycott spread to the Black townships. In Durban and Port Elizabeth riot police were called in. At Elsies River, near Cape Town, police fired on Coloured children, killing two and wounding three.
References
Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999).|Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.