SMIT, Anna

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Was injured 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 61. One of the operatives was sentenced to death and later hanged.

TV Series Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report Glossary

Volume 5, Chapter 2

... SMAKATHANA, Koos SMANGA, Sthembile SMART, Brian Clifford SMAYILE, Tenjiwe Gladys SMILES, Benny SMILES, Molebatsi Jerry SMININI, Mandla Nhonho SMIT, Anna SMIT, Cornelius SMITH, David SMITH, Elizabeth Mmaletsatsi SMITH, Myrtle SMITH, Nanki SMITH, Oupa Abram SMITH, Pule Jordane SMITH, Sanni ...

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Volume 2, Chapter 4

... regard. 22 The Commission received the following submissions in respect of victims of the Amanzimtoti bombing: the deaths of Cornelius Francois Smit [JB00193/02PS], Ms Irma Bencini [JB05547/03WR], Ms Anna Petronella Shearer [KZN/NNN/522/DN] and Willem Arie van Wyk [JB04774/03VT]; injuries to ...

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Volume 3, Chapter 3

... Zondo, who admitted his role in the bombing, was convicted and given five death sentences. He was executed on 9 September 1986. Mr Cornelius Smit, whose son Johan died in the explosion, told the Commission that he saw his son as a martyr whose death had helped usher in the new South Africa ...

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