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JAFETA, Sefata

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A citizen of Lesotho who was shot dead on 9 December 1982 in an attack by SADF Special Forces operatives on several ANC houses and a block of flats on Maseru, Lesotho. Thirty South Africans and twelve citizens of Lesotho were killed in the midnight attack.

‘Maseru Lesotho December 1982’ // The first Maseru raid, that’s the December 1982 raid where 42 were killed, 30 South Africans, 12 Basotho, that again was jointly planned, the same individuals Buchner and Steijn who were involved in the planning of the Matola raid. And again special forces.
The Truth Commission has heard evidence before of attacks on exile South Africans in neighbouring states. The attack on Father Michael Lapsley in Zimbabwe, the murder of Jackie Quinn, and others in Lesotho in 1987. On Tuesday a remarkable survivor told of the bloody South African raid on Maseru in ...
 
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