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’Doctor’ Mkopidi Motsisi, witness to killing of an ANC activist, is shot dead in Sharpeville, PWV.
- Updated
- 30 Sep 2019
How we know this
- 01Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 254.
Last updated · 30 Sep 2019
South African History Online. (2012, March 5). ’Doctor’ Mkopidi Motsisi, witness to killing of an ANC activist, is shot dead in Sharpeville, PWV.. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0076246
South African History Online (2012) '’Doctor’ Mkopidi Motsisi, witness to killing of an ANC activist, is shot dead in Sharpeville, PWV.', South African History Online, 5 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0076246 (Accessed: 11 November 2026).
South African History Online, ’Doctor’ Mkopidi Motsisi, witness to killing of an ANC activist, is shot dead in Sharpeville, PWV. [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0076246, (accessed 11 November 2026).
"’Doctor’ Mkopidi Motsisi, witness to killing of an ANC activist, is shot dead in Sharpeville, PWV.." South African History Online, 5 Mar. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0076246. Accessed 11 Nov. 2026.
South African History Online. "’Doctor’ Mkopidi Motsisi, witness to killing of an ANC activist, is shot dead in Sharpeville, PWV.." South African History Online. March 5, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0076246.
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