Issued by: Truth and Reconciliation Commission
July 25, 1996
The Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation is scheduled next week to hear separate amnesty applications from Kwane Sebe, son of former Ciskei leader Lennox Sebe, and from 12 Mdantsane residents who necklaced four alleged gang members.
The applications will be heard by the five-member Committee at hearings in East London.
Sebe, 38, the former commander of the Elite Unit of the Ciskeian Police, is serving 21 years in prison for the bombing of a bottlestore and a house belonging to his former second-in-command, Mr Zandisile Ngwanya.
Court evidence was that a six-man unit of the Ciskeian Defence Force blew up the Keiskammahoek bottle store with military explosives in May 1989. Sebe was convicted of malicious damage to property and jailed for nine years on this charge. In a later trial, he was jailed for 12 years after being convicted, again of malicious damange to property, for the bombing of a house in Peddie in December 1989.
The Mdantsane applicants are serving terms of imprisonment rang- ing from 10 to 23 years after being convicted of murdering four alleged members of the Killer Boys' gang in Mdantsane in February 1987.
The applicants are: Bonakele Horatius Jwambi, 48; Luyanda Kana, 34; Mzwabantu Patrick Katsi-Katsi, 33; Mseki Mbusi, 38; Bangikhaya Petros, 27; Xolile Edgar Nkukwana, 30; Mandlenkosi Jabavu, 35; Mbuyiselo Klaas, 29; Raymond Monwabisi Kana, 39; Mabongo Jamela, 33; Thando Kana, 31; and Soyiso Zuzani, 30.
They murdered Mr Folie Bushula, Mr Mpumelelo Mbinqo, Mr Mkhuseli Yellem and Mr Archie Booi Swartland. They were sentenced in the Bisho Supreme Court on June 6, 1989. They have declared themselves in their amnesty applications to be members or supporters of the African National Congress.