Issued by: Truth and Reconciliation Commission
June 12, 1998
STATEMENT FROM THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION
Two AWB members who bombed union offices and a school in Pretoria have been granted amnesty.
Petrus Jacobus Judeel and Andries Stefanus Kriel took part in the bombing of the Hillview High School in July 1991 and Cosatu House in Pretoria in December 1991.
They were also given amnesty for bombing post offices in Krugersdorp and the then Verwoerdburg in January 1992, and for stealing explosives from the Rustenburg Platinum Mine in 1991.
The TRC's Amnesty Committee granted them amnesty without requiring them to appear at a public hearing. In terms of the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, amnesty applicants not involved in killing, abduction, torture or severe ill-treatment can have their application decided in chambers.