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- ↑ "Remember Gabon air victims on Heroes day" Archived 2005-01-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Twee gestorwenes het vir klubs in SA gespeel" [Two dead played for clubs in SA] (in Afrikaans). Die Burger Laaste. 29 April 1993.
- ↑ Bobrowsky, Josef & Mazet, François (23 September 2002). "AFrican Nations Cup 1992". RSSSF .
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