Issued by: Truth and Reconciliation Commission
September 30, 1996
The Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is to hear an application for amnesty during October from Brian Mitchell, the former police officer convicted of murder following the Trust Feed Massacre in KwaZulu-Natal.
The committee has also arranged a date early in November to hear applications from Dirk Coetzee, Almond Nofomela and David Tshikalanga.
Mitchell's application will be heard on October 15 and 16 in Pietermaritzburg and the application from Coetzee, Nofomela and Tshikalanga will be heard in Durban from November 5 to 8.
Brian Victor Mitchell was sentenced to death in the Supreme Court, Pietermaritzburg, for the murder of 11 people: Mseleni Ntuli, Dudu Shangase, Zetha Shangase, Nkonyeni Shangase, Muzi Shangase, Filda Ntuli, Fikile Zondi, Marita Xaba, Sara Nyoka, Alfred Zita and Sisedewu Sithole in December 1988. He was later reprieved and is serving a 30-year jail sentence.