Issued by: Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The Amnesty Committee of the TRC is to hear amnesty applications of Brigadier Willem Schoon - a part heard matter, on the abduction of Nokuthula Simelane, an ANC activist from Swaziland in 1982.
Four applicants, Willem Coetzee, Norman Mkhonza, Frederick Mong, Frederick Williams, Nomrod Veyi, Jacobus Ross with the exception of Lazarus Selamolela have already testified before the committee in May.
Peter Lengene who had applied for amnesty died three months ago. All the seven applicants were members of the Soweto Special Branch Unit under Coetzee.
They are applying for their role in the infiltration and killing of ANC underground activists in Soweto in the early eighties.
The Schoon hearing will take place on June 28, 1999 in Pretoria at the Idasa Center, cnr Visagie and Prinsloo Street.
For more information call Mbulelo Sompeta : 082 452 7870.
June 24, 1999