General Dan Pienaar is killed as his aircraft crashes into Lake Victoria at Kisumu while returning to South Africa. The suburbs

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01Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 8, p. 553
02Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1972). Dictionary of South African Biography, Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council, v. 3 p. 686.

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South African History Online. (2011, December 14). General Dan Pienaar is killed as his aircraft crashes into Lake Victoria at Kisumu while returning to South Africa. The suburbs. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0071164

South African History Online (2011) 'General Dan Pienaar is killed as his aircraft crashes into Lake Victoria at Kisumu while returning to South Africa. The suburbs', South African History Online, 14 December. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0071164 (Accessed: 24 September 2026).

South African History Online, General Dan Pienaar is killed as his aircraft crashes into Lake Victoria at Kisumu while returning to South Africa. The suburbs [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0071164, (accessed 24 September 2026).

"General Dan Pienaar is killed as his aircraft crashes into Lake Victoria at Kisumu while returning to South Africa. The suburbs." South African History Online, 14 Dec. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0071164. Accessed 24 Sept. 2026.

South African History Online. "General Dan Pienaar is killed as his aircraft crashes into Lake Victoria at Kisumu while returning to South Africa. The suburbs." South African History Online. December 14, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0071164.