South African police jump into action in an effort to protect a group of South African-Indians from a mob of Black racists during the Durban Race Riots of January 1949, where Indians were murdered and their homes and businesses pillaged. [474 x 942]

> The Durban riots were an anti-Indian riot that took place between 13–15 January 1949, primarily by black Zulu South Africans targeting Indian South Africans in Durban, South Africa

> The riots resulted in the massacre of mostly Indian people in which 142 people died and 1087 people were injured. 300 buildings were destroyed and 2000 structures were damaged. It also created 40,000 Indian refugees, followed by a wave of suicides among Indians, as a result of the disintegration of their families, economic failure, stress, humiliation and racist discrimination.