Mmabatho Stadium Coup of 1988

As is well known, there were two coups in Bophuthatswana, in 1988 and 1994, the Mmabatho stadium was a focus of activity during both coups.
On 10 February 1988, South African Army troops moved into the independent tribal homeland of Bophuthatswana and crushed a military coup 
that 12 hours prior had overthrown the homeland's president Lucas Mangope. The combined police and Army intervention came after 
Bophuthatswana's Army commanders, arrested the president and detained him and most of his Cabinet in a soccer stadium in the capital of Mmabatho. 
They accused them of widespread governmental corruption. South African President Pieter W. Botha, in a statement to Parliament, said he ordered 
in troops because he opposed the forcible seizure of power and because Bophuthatswanan officials had asked for help. Witnesses said that about 
20 homeland soldiers who had detained the president surrendered after South African troops in armored vehicles surrounded the stadium. "
As several armored vehicles crashed through a fence, the security forces stormed the stadium, firing one shot and killing a Bophuthatswanan soldier", the witness said. Nearly 60 homeland soldiers were reported to have been arrested during the assault.