Issued by: Truth and Reconciliation Commission
December 10, 1999
AMNESTY DECISION
The following people were this week granted amnesty by the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Ettiene Jacobus Le Roux, Jan Bastiaan De Wet, Johannes Abraham Vlok, johan Wilhem Du Plessis, Abraham Christoffel "Abbie" Fourie, Johannes Andries, "JJ" Venter, Jacobus Petrus Nel, Petrus Paulus Steyn, Gerhardus Daniel "Gert' Fourie and Johannes Petrus Olivier.
The applicants had applied for amnesty for their role in the murders, attempted murders, malicious damage to property and contravention of the Explosives Act.
Their acts included, among others, the bomb attacks in Bree Street, Johannesburg, cnr of Odendaal and Victoria Streets in Germiston, Blood Street, Pretoria, Westonaria, Krugersdorp, Taxi Rank in Bloemfontein, district of Koster in Rustenburg and the Johannesburg International Airport a few days before the country's first democratic elections in 1994.
Their amnesty applications were heard between June and September of 1998 in Boksburg, Gauteng.
Inquiries: Nhlanhla Mbatha 082 458 9968.