7 TRC Reports on Boipatong

• The 17 June 1992 massacre, the Boipatong massacre was allegedly launched from the KwaMadala hostel in the Vaal by a group of more than 200 men armed with knives, pangas and guns, leaving at least forty-five people dead and twenty-two injured.
• Victims included at least nine children, two babies and seventeen women, one of whom was pregnant.
• Residents were raped, hacked, stabbed, shot, beaten and disembowelled. Hundreds of homes were attacked and looted.
• Victims said they had been attacked by white men in security force uniforms and black men with red and white head bands speaking Zulu and chanting Zulu slogans.