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Nine people are killed in a clash between police and residents after a rent stay-away called by the Alexandra boycott committee
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- 30 Sep 2019
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- 01Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 263.
Last updated · 30 Sep 2019
South African History Online. (2012, April 23). Nine people are killed in a clash between police and residents after a rent stay-away called by the Alexandra boycott committee. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0082038
South African History Online (2012) 'Nine people are killed in a clash between police and residents after a rent stay-away called by the Alexandra boycott committee', South African History Online, 23 April. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0082038 (Accessed: 26 September 2026).
South African History Online, Nine people are killed in a clash between police and residents after a rent stay-away called by the Alexandra boycott committee [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0082038, (accessed 26 September 2026).
"Nine people are killed in a clash between police and residents after a rent stay-away called by the Alexandra boycott committee." South African History Online, 23 Apr. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0082038. Accessed 26 Sept. 2026.
South African History Online. "Nine people are killed in a clash between police and residents after a rent stay-away called by the Alexandra boycott committee." South African History Online. April 23, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0082038.
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