Joseph Mathe’s body is found by the Bophuthatswana police in the boot of a burnt car at Mmakaunyane.

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01Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 253.

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South African History Online. (2012, June 28). Joseph Mathe’s body is found by the Bophuthatswana police in the boot of a burnt car at Mmakaunyane.. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0087389

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South African History Online. "Joseph Mathe’s body is found by the Bophuthatswana police in the boot of a burnt car at Mmakaunyane.." South African History Online. June 28, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0087389.