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Washington Duke Sosibo, traditional headman and local IFP organiser, is shot dead as he leaves a local supermarket in Richmond,
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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. 256.
Last updated · 30 Sep 2019
South African History Online. (2012, August 10). Washington Duke Sosibo, traditional headman and local IFP organiser, is shot dead as he leaves a local supermarket in Richmond,. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0090349
South African History Online (2012) 'Washington Duke Sosibo, traditional headman and local IFP organiser, is shot dead as he leaves a local supermarket in Richmond,', South African History Online, 10 August. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0090349 (Accessed: 26 September 2026).
South African History Online, Washington Duke Sosibo, traditional headman and local IFP organiser, is shot dead as he leaves a local supermarket in Richmond, [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0090349, (accessed 26 September 2026).
"Washington Duke Sosibo, traditional headman and local IFP organiser, is shot dead as he leaves a local supermarket in Richmond,." South African History Online, 10 Aug. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0090349. Accessed 26 Sept. 2026.
South African History Online. "Washington Duke Sosibo, traditional headman and local IFP organiser, is shot dead as he leaves a local supermarket in Richmond,." South African History Online. August 10, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0090349.
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