In an attempt to destabilise the country and cause an uprising against the Apartheid government, members of Poqo, the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania's military wing kill a White family in their caravan while they camp on the Bashee River in the Engcobo area of the Transkei, not far from Nelson Mandela's birthplace. Forty Africans were later arrested and twenty-two sentenced to death for the murders.

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Source:

Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1979). Geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika; verwerk en bygewerk deur D.W. Kruger; 3de bygewerkte uitg . Goodwood, Cape Town: NASOU, p. 599.)

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