SMIT, CJ

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Was injured when MK operatives detonated an explosive in a car outside the South African Air Force (SAAF) headquarters in Church Street, Pretoria, on 20 May 1983. Twenty-one people were killed and 217 injured. The overall commander of MK’s Special Operations Unit and two MK operatives were granted amnesty (AC/2001/003 and AC/2001/023). See Church Street bombing, Pretoria.

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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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Volume 3, Chapter 4

... use of police and municipal authority facilities. Witnesses reported being taken to Room 29 of the community council’s headquarters at the Philip Smit Centre or to the police station, where they were severely assaulted by the gang. In some cases, gang members would deliver their victims into ...

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Volume 2, Chapter 3

... Geldenhuys; Lt-Genl CF Zietsman; 1980s - Brig Johan Coetzee; Maj Gen Frans Steenkamp; Maj-Genl S Schutte; Brig Johan van der Merwe; 1990s -Basie Smit. ...

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