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VAN DYK, Amina Elizabeth

Age 24

Description
Was shot and injured by members of the SAP in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, on 29 August 1985 during extensive unrest that broke out following the Pollsmoor march held the previous day. Ms Van Dyk lost an eye in the shooting. Two young boys were shot dead.

... Donovan VAN DER MERWE, Cheryl-Anne Charmaine VAN DER MERWE, Jacob Gabriel VAN DER MERWE/DAVIDS, Donald VAN DER SCHYFF, Mogamat Nadeem VAN DYK, Amina Elizabeth VAN ECK, Jacoba VAN ECK, Johannes Frederick VAN ECK, Johannes Frederick (Junior) VAN ECK, Michael Ignatius VAN ECK, Nelmari VAN ...
... daughter doesn’t see. She has lost everything, her future as well. 69 Such incidents were echoed in many statements made to the Commission. Ms Amina Elizabeth van Dyk told the Commission at the Pollsmoor hearing that she had been shot with birdshot by the police in 1985: I lost my one eye ...
 
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