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SMIT, Cornelius

Age 8

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Was killed when two MK operatives detonated a bomb in a shopping centre in 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 Amanzimtoti explosion killed five people and injured 61. One of the operatives was sentenced to death and later hanged.

... 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 ...
AVOID PROSECUTION. WITH REGARD TO THEIR ATTEMPTS TO ENSURE THAT CAPRIVI TRAINEES WHO HAD BEEN ARRESTED OBTAINED BAIL AND WERE REMOVED, SAP GENERALS SMIT AND VAN DER MERWE MUST HAVE AT LEAST ATTEMPTED TO DEFEAT THE ENDS OF JUSTICE. THE SADF’S FINAL WITHDRAWAL FROM THE PROJECT WAS NOT AN ACT OF ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... SADF, the State Security Council and Inkatha. Page 229 Paragraph 193: The first part of the sentence beginning on line 22 should read ‘Mr Johan Smit, whose son Cornelius died in the explosion …’ Page 284 ‘The Killing of Claire Stewart’. Replace ‘a British citizen’ in line 2 with ...
 
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