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Fanie Jannes Jiba (36), chairperson of SACP and MK member, is shot dead at a taxi rank in Butterworth, Transkei.
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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. 255.
Last updated · 30 Sep 2019
South African History Online. (2012, June 1). Fanie Jannes Jiba (36), chairperson of SACP and MK member, is shot dead at a taxi rank in Butterworth, Transkei.. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0085009
South African History Online (2012) 'Fanie Jannes Jiba (36), chairperson of SACP and MK member, is shot dead at a taxi rank in Butterworth, Transkei.', South African History Online, 1 June. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0085009 (Accessed: 26 September 2026).
South African History Online, Fanie Jannes Jiba (36), chairperson of SACP and MK member, is shot dead at a taxi rank in Butterworth, Transkei. [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0085009, (accessed 26 September 2026).
"Fanie Jannes Jiba (36), chairperson of SACP and MK member, is shot dead at a taxi rank in Butterworth, Transkei.." South African History Online, 1 June 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0085009. Accessed 26 Sept. 2026.
South African History Online. "Fanie Jannes Jiba (36), chairperson of SACP and MK member, is shot dead at a taxi rank in Butterworth, Transkei.." South African History Online. June 1, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0085009.
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