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Sipho Mutsi (20), COSAS member, dies in police custody during interrogation. Post –mortem reveals head injuries and sjambok w
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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. 245.
Last updated · 30 Sep 2019
South African History Online. (2012, May 3). Sipho Mutsi (20), COSAS member, dies in police custody during interrogation. Post –mortem reveals head injuries and sjambok w. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0082661
South African History Online (2012) 'Sipho Mutsi (20), COSAS member, dies in police custody during interrogation. Post –mortem reveals head injuries and sjambok w', South African History Online, 3 May. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0082661 (Accessed: 31 October 2026).
South African History Online, Sipho Mutsi (20), COSAS member, dies in police custody during interrogation. Post –mortem reveals head injuries and sjambok w [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0082661, (accessed 31 October 2026).
"Sipho Mutsi (20), COSAS member, dies in police custody during interrogation. Post –mortem reveals head injuries and sjambok w." South African History Online, 3 May 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0082661. Accessed 31 Oct. 2026.
South African History Online. "Sipho Mutsi (20), COSAS member, dies in police custody during interrogation. Post –mortem reveals head injuries and sjambok w." South African History Online. May 3, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0082661.
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