Poqo members kill a White family

Updated: 30 Sep 2019

In an attempt to destabilise the country and cause an uprising against the Apartheid government, members of Poqo, the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania's military wing kill a White family in their caravan while they camp on the Bashee River in the Engcobo area of the Transkei, not far from Nelson Mandela's birthplace. Forty Africans were later arrested and twenty-two sentenced to death for the murders.

How we know this

01Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1979). Geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika; verwerk en bygewerk deur D.W. Kruger; 3de bygewerkte uitg . Goodwood, Cape Town: NASOU, p. 599.)
02SAHO, Poqo, from South African History Online, Available at www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed: 11 February 2013]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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