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VAN WYK, Willem Arie

Age 2

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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.

... Freddie SUNDUZA, Sifiso SUNDUZA, Sithembiso Christopher SUNDUZA, Solomon Mandlenkosi Mazibuko SUTHU, Nothozayo SWAARTBOOI, Themba Simon SWANEPOEL, Willem SWART, Basil SWARTBOOI, Bushy Voltaire SWARTBOOI, Buyelwa Gladys SWARTBOOI, Eric Buyisile SWARTBOOI, Melvin Khayalethu SWARTBOOI, Roy Bomwana ...
... 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 Ms Isabella Magretha van Wyk [JB04774/03VT], Ms Anna Smit [JB00193/02PS], Ms Sara Susanna Hogan ...
 
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