Event record
’Doctor’ Mkopidi Motsisi, witness to killing of an ANC activist, is shot dead in Sharpeville, PWV.
- Updated
- 30 Sep 2019
Search events by date
This day in history
What happened on your birthday?
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: 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 Sept. 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.
Further reading
Brenda Fassie’s 1997 hit song Vulindlela still raises questions about South Africa as a nation
KwaZulu-Natal Literary Trails (under Heritage Routes)
Ambassador Lindiwe Mabuza and her connection with Scotland: An Appreciation by Brian Filling
Langa Township, Cape Town
Gansbaai, Overberg
SAHO is free because readers fund it. Donate →