Thirty years ago today, on May 1, 1995 (April 2, 1995 in the lunar calendar), former South African President Nelson Mandela was in danger on May Day. On the afternoon of May 1, 1995, when South African President Nelson Mandela attended a May Day International Labor Day celebration rally in the town of Umrazi in northern Durban, someone fired at the venue, causing riots and casualties. The president was forced to evacuate the scene in an armored vehicle, which shocked the country. The town of Umraqi is located in KwaZulu-Natal Province, where the Zulu people, the largest black tribe in South Africa, live. The rally was convened by the African National Congress (ANC) at the town's King Goodwill Zuwelitini stadium and was attended by 40,000 ANC members and supporters. Before the start of the conference, about 500 members of the Inkatha Freedom Party, which has political differences with the ANC and represents the interests of the Zulu people, lined up and attempted to crowd into the venue. The police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse them. 500 meters away from the stadium, there is a cluster of houses where Inkatha supporters live. At this time, a large number of Inkatha members and supporters gathered outside the stadium, and the atmosphere was tense. At 3:30 p.m., when Mandela was coming to an end of his speech and began to thank the participants, someone began to fire with automatic rifles at the dense crowd in the stadium, injuring several people immediately. The order in the field was immediately chaotic, and gunshots also sounded outside the field. At this time, agents quickly packed Mandela into an armored vehicle to evacuate the scene. The riots injured six people, one of whom died after arriving at the hospital. In addition, several houses close to the stadium were burned down.