Thirteen rioters die when police fire shots to disperse a large crowd storming a bottle store in KwaZekele, Port Elizabeth.

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01Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 263.

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South African History Online. (2012, March 16). Thirteen rioters die when police fire shots to disperse a large crowd storming a bottle store in KwaZekele, Port Elizabeth.. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0079701

South African History Online (2012) 'Thirteen rioters die when police fire shots to disperse a large crowd storming a bottle store in KwaZekele, Port Elizabeth.', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0079701 (Accessed: 27 July 2026).

South African History Online, Thirteen rioters die when police fire shots to disperse a large crowd storming a bottle store in KwaZekele, Port Elizabeth. [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0079701, (accessed 27 July 2026).

"Thirteen rioters die when police fire shots to disperse a large crowd storming a bottle store in KwaZekele, Port Elizabeth.." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0079701. Accessed 27 July 2026.

South African History Online. "Thirteen rioters die when police fire shots to disperse a large crowd storming a bottle store in KwaZekele, Port Elizabeth.." South African History Online. March 16, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0079701.