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eventREF E-0012492Revised

8 August 1982

Ernest Dipale dies in detention

Updated
30 Sep 2019

How we know this

  1. 01Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 537.
  2. 02Cowell, M., (1982), 'Blacks Defiant at South African Funeral', from The New York Times, 15 August, [Online], Available at www.nytimes.com [Accessed: 06 August 2013]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Ernest Dipale dies in detention. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012492

South African History Online (2011) 'Ernest Dipale dies in detention', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012492 (Accessed: 8 October 2026).

South African History Online, Ernest Dipale dies in detention [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012492, (accessed 8 October 2026).

"Ernest Dipale dies in detention." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012492. Accessed 8 Oct. 2026.

South African History Online. "Ernest Dipale dies in detention." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012492.

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