Issued by Truth and Reconciliation Commission
October 26 1999
Two of the three amnesty applicants were granted amnesty by the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Pretoria today.
Former security branch policemen, Johannes Petrus Roodt, Daniel Jacobus Kruger and the late Sarel du Plessis Crafford had applied for amnesty for their role in the murder of Ernest Ramango of Mamelodi in the late 1980's.
Ramango, who apparently was a police informer and fell out of favour with his handlers after confessing to them of being a double agent, was blown up in Mamelodi with explosives.
In granting amnesty to Roodt and Kruger, Judge Sisi Khampepe of the Amnesty Committee said the two had met the requirements of the Act in as far as the murder and the desecration of the body of Ramango was concerned.
Khampepe said Crafford's application would still go before the committee for further consideration.
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