November 19, 1981 (Thursday)
- In Durban, South Africa, African National Congress member and lawyer Griffiths Mxenge was assassinated by four agents of the Vlakplaas, a secret paramilitary unit of the South African Police, directed by Colonel Eugene de Kock and Commander Dirk Coetzee. Mxenge, who was repeatedly stabbed and beaten by four men, was the first of many ANC activists who were killed by the police unit during the last decade of apartheid, including his wife Victoria Mxenge, who was murdered on August 1, 1985.
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