This Day in History: October 31, 1978
Additional Date: October 31, 1978
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.