Sunday Times
01 January, 1994
A policeman riddles a right-wing extremist with machine gun fire while a colleague appeals to him to stop. Three members of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), called in by President Mangope to stave off the imminent general election, were killed. The homeland subsequently lost its autonomy.
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