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Over fifty squatters begin a hunger strike in St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, protesting against evictions from Nyanga squat
- Updated
- 30 Sep 2019
How we know this
- 01Kalley, 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.
Last updated · 30 Sep 2019
South African History Online. (2012, February 24). Over fifty squatters begin a hunger strike in St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, protesting against evictions from Nyanga squat. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0074573
South African History Online (2012) 'Over fifty squatters begin a hunger strike in St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, protesting against evictions from Nyanga squat', South African History Online, 24 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0074573 (Accessed: 4 November 2026).
South African History Online, Over fifty squatters begin a hunger strike in St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, protesting against evictions from Nyanga squat [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0074573, (accessed 4 November 2026).
"Over fifty squatters begin a hunger strike in St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, protesting against evictions from Nyanga squat." South African History Online, 24 Feb. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0074573. Accessed 4 Nov. 2026.
South African History Online. "Over fifty squatters begin a hunger strike in St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, protesting against evictions from Nyanga squat." South African History Online. February 24, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0074573.
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