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To honor heroes who died at Ingquza hill on o6 June 1960. On the 6th June 1960 more than thousand Pondo's from Eastern Pondoland (Bizana ,Lusikisiki, Flagstaff and Ntabankulu) met at Ingquza Hill with the intentions of discussing their problems. They demanded the withdrawal of the hated system of the Bantu Authorities Act, the representation of all South Africans in the republic's parliament, relief from increased taxes and the abolition of the pass system. Before these problems were tabled before the people, a military force had occupied Ingquza hill. The peaceful meeting was turned into a massacre of innocent people, when police shot victims, teargassed them and beat them with batons. Eleven people were killed. Many of them were shot at the back of their heads; and more than 48 casualties were hospitalized and twenty three people were arrested and sentenced to imprisonment. As an act of revenge the insurgents killed several headman and others who had been co-operating with the government it was to be several years before the dissatisfaction in Pondoland died down.