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#WestdeneDamDisaster: Remembering the loss of 42 young lives
WESTDENE – 30 Children swam to safety or were rescued from the rooftop of the bus.
On the fateful afternoon of 27 March 1985, 42 young lives were lost.
Now, 33 years later, we still remember them.
- Jakobus Frederick Els
- Karin Erasmus
- Francina Fritz
- Adriana Horn
- Jacqueline Hurwitz
- Anel Susan Jacobs
- Hendrik Johannes Dreyer
- Denise Coetzee
- Linda du Plooy
- Caroline Brown
- Renette du Plooy
- Francois du Toit
- Madeleine Ludick
- Belinda McLaughlin
- Cornelius Mans
- Tanya Pieters
- Anna Christina Van Tonder
- Elsa Van Heerden
- Elmarie Marshall
- Catharina Maria Meyer
- Mary-Ann Susan Miles
- Anna Jacoba Morris
- Connie Pretorius
- Elizabeth Marlene Pretorius
- Thelma Elizabeth Rautenbach
- Hester Reynders
- Albertus Ouvenkamp
- Charl Strydom
- Andries Johannes Swart
- Conrad Marx
- Petrus Coenraad Van der Westhuizen
- Lelanié Juanita Jooste
- Petrus Lucas Koen
- André Kleinhans
- Clasina Elizabeth Kruger
- Maria Catherina Kruger
- Riaan Lira
- Deon Andre Venter
- Vinette Swanepoel
- Anne-Lizé Botha
- Henrietta Catharina Botha
- Anna Susanna Blignaut.
Information generously shared by www.westdene1985.co.za
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