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eventREF E-0012616Revised

18 October 1985

SRC president Ngwako Ramalepe dies

SRC president Ngwako Ramalepe dies

Updated
30 Sep 2019
SRC president Ngwako Ramalepe dies

Ngwako Ramalepe, president of the Student Representative Council (SRC) at Modjadji Teacher Training College, died in police custody after first being assaulted by police at the Kgapane station, Lebowa, in the Northern Transvaal (presently known as Limpopo) and later dumped along a road. Modjadji Teacher Training College has since been re-named after him.

 

How we know this

  1. 01Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee.

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). SRC president Ngwako Ramalepe dies. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012616

South African History Online (2011) 'SRC president Ngwako Ramalepe dies', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012616 (Accessed: 5 November 2026).

South African History Online, SRC president Ngwako Ramalepe dies [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012616, (accessed 5 November 2026).

"SRC president Ngwako Ramalepe dies." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012616. Accessed 5 Nov. 2026.

South African History Online. "SRC president Ngwako Ramalepe dies." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012616.

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