Sonnyboy Mokoena (24) is found hanged in his cell in Pilgrim’s Rest.

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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.

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South African History Online. (2012, August 14). Sonnyboy Mokoena (24) is found hanged in his cell in Pilgrim’s Rest.. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0090405

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