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Ten people are killed when Ciskei soldiers use force against a group revellers celebrating Nelson Mandel’s release in Mdantsane
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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. 269.
Last updated · 30 Sep 2019
South African History Online. (2012, January 31). Ten people are killed when Ciskei soldiers use force against a group revellers celebrating Nelson Mandel’s release in Mdantsane. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0073684
South African History Online (2012) 'Ten people are killed when Ciskei soldiers use force against a group revellers celebrating Nelson Mandel’s release in Mdantsane', South African History Online, 31 January. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0073684 (Accessed: 7 September 2026).
South African History Online, Ten people are killed when Ciskei soldiers use force against a group revellers celebrating Nelson Mandel’s release in Mdantsane [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0073684, (accessed 7 September 2026).
"Ten people are killed when Ciskei soldiers use force against a group revellers celebrating Nelson Mandel’s release in Mdantsane." South African History Online, 31 Jan. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0073684. Accessed 7 Sept. 2026.
South African History Online. "Ten people are killed when Ciskei soldiers use force against a group revellers celebrating Nelson Mandel’s release in Mdantsane." South African History Online. January 31, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0073684.
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