Issued by: Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The Amnesty Committee of the TRC in Pretoria adjourned at midday today to enable the delivery of a subpoena to Daniel Potgieter for his role in the killing of an Askari, Johannes Themba Mabotha in 1992.
A Soweto security branch member at the time, Potgieter arrested and detained Mabotha whom he later handed to Vlakplaas commander, Eugene De Kock.
De Kock and five other security policemen are seeking amnesty for their role in the murder of Mabotha. Following release at Protea Police Station, Mabotha was abducted, shot and his body blown with explosives at Penge Mine near Burgersfort in Mpumalanga.
Potgieter, who is not an applicant in this matter, is being subpoenaed to testify about his knowledge on the arrest, detention, interrogation, release and murder of Mabotha.
The next sitting for the Mabotha hearing has been set for June 21. Amnesty applications for the killing of Brian Ngqulunga by De Kock in Bophutatswana in 1990 will also be heard in the same week.
Next week Monday June 14, the Amnesty Committee of the TRC will hear amnesty applications of Eugene De Kock and others for killing Zweli Nyanda and Keith Mcfadden in Swaziland in 1983.
In the following week, the committee will hear De Kock's application on the killing of another Vlakplaas Askari, Brian Ngqulunga in Bophuthatswana in 1990.
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10 June 1999