A drive-by memorial service was held in Boekenhout Street, Bonteheuwel on January 17 for Wilhelmina Williams, the mother of anti-apartheid struggle hero Coline Williams. Williams was affectionately known to everyone as “Auntie Mientjies.”

Selina Williams, who spoke at her mother’s memorial, remains as the last surviving family member from the generation that had been forcibly evicted from District Six and resettled in Bonteheuwel on Cape Town’s crime and gang ridden Cape Flats area.

Coline Williams and Robbie Waterwich died on July 23, 1989 when an explosive device they had been carrying detonated prematurely near the Athlone Police Station. Anti-apartheid activists alleged that the explosive device had been intercepted by agents of the Apartheid regime.

A drive by memorial service was held in Boekenhout Street, Bonteheuwel, for Wilhelmina Williams, the mother of anti-apartheid struggle hero Coline Williams. Williams was affectionately known to everyone as “Auntie Mientjies”.

Coline Williams and Robbie Waterwich died on 23 July 1989 when an explosive device they had been carrying detonated prematurely near the Athlone Police Station. Anti-apartheid activists alleged that the explosive device had been intercepted by agents of the Apartheid regime.

Selina Williams, who spoke at her mother’s memorial, remains as the last surviving family member from the generation that had been forcibly evicted from District Six and resettled in Bonteheuwel on Cape Town’s crime and gang ridden Cape Flats area.