Van Wyk Lillian

Lillian van Wyk, who was 70 years old at the time of the event. The tragedy occurred at the Onderstepoort smallholdings, a rural farming community located just outside Pretoria in what was then the Transvaal province and is now part of Gauteng. On Wednesday, September 22, 1993, Lillian van Wyk was targeted at her smallholding property in a violent intrusion. During the course of the attack, she was brutally assaulted and hacked to death with a panga, a traditional heavy South African machete, inside her home.