September 23, 1999
MEDIA ADVISORY BY THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION
The Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission will hear a number of amnesty applications from the African National Congress and Self Defence Unit members next week Monday.
The hearing will start on Monday September 27 at the JISS Centre, Mayfair in Johannesburg. The hearing is set down for week.
Joseph Makhanye and Jabulani Makhanye, both members of the African National Congress, will be applying for amnesty for killing Mfanayedwa Manana who was a municipal policeman. Also applying are, Motsepe Ezekiel Mametse and Daniel Ndoda Moele for being involved in armed robbery of the Ormonde Satellite Police Station and the Transvaal Galvanised Company.
They claimed to be members of the African National Congress who took arms from a police station for SDU's activities and money for the same activities. Also applying is Dennis Lukas Kgatitsoe an ANC Your League member for the killing of Marvin Binder who was suspectef of siding with the Inkatha Freedom Party during the time of the ANC and IFP conflict.
Velaphi Lot Dlamini an MK commander is also applying for amnesty for killing several IFP members at Meadowlands and the Mzihlophe Hostels. The incident involved the shooting of IFP people with AK47s, hand grenades and RPG rocket launchers.
People believed to be members of Inkatha Freedom Party were killed whilst they were on their way to funerals at night.
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