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A full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit is launched

Date
31 Oct 1978
Updated
30 Sep 2019
A full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit is launched

A full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit was launched following a shoot-out between police and suspected nationalist guerrillas some forty miles west of Louis Trichardt, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). The shoot-out happened at the height of the struggle against apartheid, with political organisations like the African National Congress (ANC) still banned by the National Party regime.

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  1. 01O’Malley, P. ‘1978’, from Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, [online], available at www.nelsonmandela.org.za (Accessed: 30 September 2013)
  2. 02Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, (Westport: Greenwood) p. 441

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2012, August 28). A full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit is launched. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0093096

South African History Online (2012) 'A full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit is launched', South African History Online, 28 August. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0093096 (Accessed: 1 August 2026).

South African History Online, A full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit is launched [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0093096, (accessed 1 August 2026).

"A full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit is launched." South African History Online, 28 Aug. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0093096. Accessed 1 Aug. 2026.

South African History Online. "A full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit is launched." South African History Online. August 28, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0093096.

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