Event record
Rioting (28-31 August) start after a Mandela march in Cape Town, in which thirty-one residents are killed in police action.
- Updated
- 30 Sep 2019
How we know this
- 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, August 10). Rioting (28-31 August) start after a Mandela march in Cape Town, in which thirty-one residents are killed in police action.. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0090342
South African History Online (2012) 'Rioting (28-31 August) start after a Mandela march in Cape Town, in which thirty-one residents are killed in police action.', South African History Online, 10 August. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0090342 (Accessed: 13 October 2026).
South African History Online, Rioting (28-31 August) start after a Mandela march in Cape Town, in which thirty-one residents are killed in police action. [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0090342, (accessed 13 October 2026).
"Rioting (28-31 August) start after a Mandela march in Cape Town, in which thirty-one residents are killed in police action.." South African History Online, 10 Aug. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0090342. Accessed 13 Oct. 2026.
South African History Online. "Rioting (28-31 August) start after a Mandela march in Cape Town, in which thirty-one residents are killed in police action.." South African History Online. August 10, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0090342.
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