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Lucky Kutumela (25), journalist and member of AZAPO/MWASA, is found dead in a police cell
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- 5 Apr 1986
- Updated
- 30 Sep 2019
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- 03Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee.
- 04Finnegan, William.(1995) Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters. Berkeley: University of California Press, [online], Available at: ark.cdlib.org [Accessed: 4 April 2014]
Last updated · 30 Sep 2019
South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Lucky Kutumela (25), journalist and member of AZAPO/MWASA, is found dead in a police cell. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012642
South African History Online (2011) 'Lucky Kutumela (25), journalist and member of AZAPO/MWASA, is found dead in a police cell', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012642 (Accessed: 1 August 2026).
South African History Online, Lucky Kutumela (25), journalist and member of AZAPO/MWASA, is found dead in a police cell [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012642, (accessed 1 August 2026).
"Lucky Kutumela (25), journalist and member of AZAPO/MWASA, is found dead in a police cell." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012642. Accessed 1 Aug. 2026.
South African History Online. "Lucky Kutumela (25), journalist and member of AZAPO/MWASA, is found dead in a police cell." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012642.
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Cape St Francis, Western Cape Peninsula
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