Issued by: TRC
June 18, 1999
The Amnesty Committee of the TRC will hear the killing of Brian Ngqulunga by former Vlakplaas commander, Eugene De Kock next week. The hearing is the last to be heard of the first cluster of De Kock's five matters at the Idasa Centre in Pretoria.
Ngqulunga was killed by Vlakplaas operatives in Bophuthatswana in 1990, allegedly for fear that he would testify to the Harms Commission about the Valkplaas activities.
The first matter however, on Monday June 21, will be testimony of Daniel Potgieter for his role in the killing of Johannes Themba Mabotha in 1989.
Potgieter, who is not an applicant for the murder, has been subpoenaed by the Amnesty Committee to clarify his knowledge on the arrest, detention, interrogation, release and subsequent killing of Mabotha.
Potgieter, called De Kock to ask him to make a "Plan" with Mabotha who had absconded from Vlakplaas to join the Mandela United Football Club headed by Winnie Mandela.
Mabotha claimed in his statement that he had been abducted by MUF Club members and taken to Mandela's house.
Other matters that have been concluded by the committee include, the killing of Zweli Nyanda and Keith McFadden in Swaziland, the killing of four unknown arms smugglers at Komatipoort and the killing of five members of the Chand family in Botswana.
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