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

Updated: 30 Sep 2019

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.

How we know this

01O’Malley, P. ‘1978’, from Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, [online], available at www.nelsonmandela.org.za (Accessed: 30 September 2013)
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: 6 November 2026).

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"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 6 Nov. 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.