Issued by: Truth and Reconciliation Commission
16 April 1998
Please note that the April Schedule does not record an Amnesty Hearing in Umtata in the week beginning April 20. The Hearing will take place in the Civic Centre in Umtata. The amnesty applications of 11 ANC supporters will be heard. It relates to bombings, abductions and killing incidents during the early 1990's in the former Transkei.
Week beginning April 27.
The hearing will take place from April 28-30 in the Great Centenary Hall in Port Elizabeth. Among the applications to be heard are 3 relating to the necklacing of a number of women in Kwanobuhle Township, Uitenhage in 1985.
The hearings for the next few weeks are scheduled as follows:
Week Beginning April 20 April 20-24 Amnesty hearing of Apla cadres : Police Club Recreation Centre, Young Street, Aliwal North (PN) April 20-24 Amnesty hearing on hit squads: Durban Cont. (ML) April 20-24 Amnesty hearing of right wingers : Johannesburg (MS) April 20-24 Amnesty hearing : Umtata (VG)
Week Beginning April 27 April 27-30 Amnesty hearing of right wingers : Johannesburg (cont.) (MS) April 27-39 Amnesty hearing of Apla cadres : Aliwal North (cont.) (PN) April 28-30 Amnesty hearing of right wingers : TRC Offices, Metlife Building, 391 Main Street, Durban. (ML) April 28-30 Amnesty hearing : Port Elizabeth (VG)
Media Liaison Officers: ML Mdu Lembede, Durban Office 082 458 8464 PN Phila Ngqumba, East London 082 458 8463 MS Mbulelo Sompetha, Johannesburg 082 452 7870 VG Vuyani Green, Cape Town 082 459 5464