SMITH, Rene

Petrus Mohapi is one of six members of the PAC’s armed wing, the Azanian People’s Liberation Army, who asked for amnesty for the murder of John Smith and the attempted murder of his wife, Rene Smith. The killing of Smith on his remote Free State farm Wesselsdal did not make the national news. ...

... the same day as the St. James massacre there was an attack on a white farmer and his wife by members of the PAC’s military wing. The farmer, John Smith was stabbed to death and his wife Rene shot and wounded. The six young men responsible for this attack are now asking for amnesty from the ...

‘Wesselsdal Farm this week’ // This house as you can see used to belong to Mr. Johnny Barnard Smith. One day we came here in 1993 on the 25th of July. We were very young. We were members of the task force; that is a component part of APLA that helps APLA to attack the farmers and to chase them ...