2 December 1982
Breyten Breytenbach is released from prison
- Updated
- 30 Sep 2019
How we know this
- 01Kalley, J. A. et al (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to Mid-1997, Greenwood: London, p. 412.
Last updated · 30 Sep 2019
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