Minister reports 23 acts of sabotage in RSA

Date: 9 Nov 1962
Updated: 22 Aug 2019

Location: back to this day in history search archive Two years after the formation of Poqo and a year after the formation of Mkhonto we Sizwe (MK), liberation armies of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and the African National Congress (ANC) respectively, Minister of Justice John Vorster, announced that there had been twenty-three incidences of sabotage from late September to date. At the time the government had already arrested sixty Black suspected anti-apartheid activists. Sources: Books: Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. Links:

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Minister reports 23 acts of sabotage in RSA. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011969

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South African History Online. "Minister reports 23 acts of sabotage in RSA." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011969.