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Eighteen Blacks are killed (sixteen shot by police and two suffocated in a burning cinema) and more than thirty injured in a da
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- 01Joyce: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid
- 02Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 262.
Last updated · 30 Sep 2019
South African History Online. (2012, April 30). Eighteen Blacks are killed (sixteen shot by police and two suffocated in a burning cinema) and more than thirty injured in a da. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0082504
South African History Online (2012) 'Eighteen Blacks are killed (sixteen shot by police and two suffocated in a burning cinema) and more than thirty injured in a da', South African History Online, 30 April. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0082504 (Accessed: 7 August 2026).
South African History Online, Eighteen Blacks are killed (sixteen shot by police and two suffocated in a burning cinema) and more than thirty injured in a da [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0082504, (accessed 7 August 2026).
"Eighteen Blacks are killed (sixteen shot by police and two suffocated in a burning cinema) and more than thirty injured in a da." South African History Online, 30 Apr. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0082504. Accessed 7 Aug. 2026.
South African History Online. "Eighteen Blacks are killed (sixteen shot by police and two suffocated in a burning cinema) and more than thirty injured in a da." South African History Online. April 30, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0082504.
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