Voices of Boipatong

3 Political Activism & Repression

Between 1990 and 1992 there were 112 massacres in the Transvaal (now Gauteng) - referred to as the "Reef township war".
In the Vaal, these were:
  • the Sebokeng massacre, 22 July 1990, 27 people killed;
  • the Sebokeng Funeral Vigil attack, 12 January 1991, 13 people killed;
  • the Gobizitwna Beer Hall attack, Sebokeng, 23 May 1991, 13 people killed;
  • the Boipatong massacre, Vaal, 17 June 1992, 40 people killed.

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