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Esther Masuku, mother of youth activist and SACC member Oupa Masuku, is killed in a hand grenade attack on their house in Atter
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- 30 Sep 2019
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- 01Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 248.
Last updated · 30 Sep 2019
South African History Online. (2012, March 12). Esther Masuku, mother of youth activist and SACC member Oupa Masuku, is killed in a hand grenade attack on their house in Atter. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0076730
South African History Online (2012) 'Esther Masuku, mother of youth activist and SACC member Oupa Masuku, is killed in a hand grenade attack on their house in Atter', South African History Online, 12 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0076730 (Accessed: 9 August 2026).
South African History Online, Esther Masuku, mother of youth activist and SACC member Oupa Masuku, is killed in a hand grenade attack on their house in Atter [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0076730, (accessed 9 August 2026).
"Esther Masuku, mother of youth activist and SACC member Oupa Masuku, is killed in a hand grenade attack on their house in Atter." South African History Online, 12 Mar. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0076730. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.
South African History Online. "Esther Masuku, mother of youth activist and SACC member Oupa Masuku, is killed in a hand grenade attack on their house in Atter." South African History Online. March 12, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0076730.
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