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VAN WYK, Willem Arie

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Was killed when two MK operatives detonated a bomb in a shopping centre at Amanzimtoti, near Durban, on 23 December 1985, in retaliation for a South African security forces attack two weeks earlier on ANC members in Lesotho, in which nine people had been killed. The explosion in Amanzimtoti killed five people and injured sixty one. One of the operatives was sentenced to death and later hanged.

Two years later the Sanlam centre in Amanzimtoti was full of Christmas holiday makers and shoppers when a bomb hidden in the arcade went off. The ANC claimed responsibility, and later a youth Andrew Zondo was arrested, charged and hanged for the offence. Five people died in the blast, among them ...
 
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