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eventREF E-0013023Revised

29 April 1992

Mother of an ANC Youth League official, is killed by a hand grenade

Updated
30 Sep 2019
Mother of an ANC Youth League official, is killed by a hand grenade

On 29 April 1992, Mrs Alinah Smith (52) of Sebokeng, Gauteng, was killed when a hand grenade exploded in her house. Mrs Smith was the mother of an African National Congress (ANC) Youth league official. According to sources, the hand grenade  was under the pillow on which Mrs Smith was sleeping. Mrs Smith died instantly.  Her daughter Nanki as well as her granddaughter Winnie were injured in the blast, as they were also sleeping in the room. The injured were taken to the Sebokeng Hospital.

How we know this

  1. 01Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 254.

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

Cite this entry

South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Mother of an ANC Youth League official, is killed by a hand grenade. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013023

South African History Online (2011) 'Mother of an ANC Youth League official, is killed by a hand grenade', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013023 (Accessed: 6 November 2026).

South African History Online, Mother of an ANC Youth League official, is killed by a hand grenade [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013023, (accessed 6 November 2026).

"Mother of an ANC Youth League official, is killed by a hand grenade." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013023. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

South African History Online. "Mother of an ANC Youth League official, is killed by a hand grenade." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013023.

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