Event record
Sam Mabe, PAC member and deputy editor of the Sowetan, is shot dead in a car by two gunmen in Soweto.
- 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. 252.
- 02https://www.anc.org.za/
Last updated · 30 Sep 2019
South African History Online. (2012, June 28). Sam Mabe, PAC member and deputy editor of the Sowetan, is shot dead in a car by two gunmen in Soweto.. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0087489
South African History Online (2012) 'Sam Mabe, PAC member and deputy editor of the Sowetan, is shot dead in a car by two gunmen in Soweto.', South African History Online, 28 June. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0087489 (Accessed: 26 October 2026).
South African History Online, Sam Mabe, PAC member and deputy editor of the Sowetan, is shot dead in a car by two gunmen in Soweto. [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0087489, (accessed 26 October 2026).
"Sam Mabe, PAC member and deputy editor of the Sowetan, is shot dead in a car by two gunmen in Soweto.." South African History Online, 28 June 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0087489. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.
South African History Online. "Sam Mabe, PAC member and deputy editor of the Sowetan, is shot dead in a car by two gunmen in Soweto.." South African History Online. June 28, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0087489.
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