Issued by: TRC
May 18, 1999
Umkhonto We Sizwe instructor and former chairman Congress of South African Students Congress (Cosas) Mziwoxolo Stokwe is applying for amnesty for killing Skune Tembisile Maarman who was suspected of being an informer in Jansenville in 1985.
Maarman was sentenced to death in a meeting of Cosas chaired by Stokwe. A group of students stoned Maarman to death and then necklaced him.
The victim was abducted from a disco and brought to a gathering of about 200 students incuding Stokwe. Also appearing before the Amnesty Committee is Khanyiso Arthur Malgas and Mxolisi Sokhiya for killing Marike De Jager and Koos De Jager in their farm in Kirkwood in June 1985.
The applicants are claiming to be members of Addo Youth Congress an affiliate of the United Democratic Front (UDF)at the time. Malgas was never arrested for this offence as he left the country to go to exile.
Sokhiya was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment and was released on parole during 1991. Mncedisi Oats Jowdwana is also applying for amnesty for murder of Pheli Collen Vaaltyn and attempted murder of Bhiya sidwell Vaaltyn in October 1986 in Grahamstown.
The hearing will be held at the Catholic Centre, Cambrigde, East London on May 24 to 28.
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