10 April 2000
The Amnesty Committee of the TRC will as from Monday, 17 March 2000, hear five different sets of amnesty applications relating to the commission of Gross Human Rights violations ranging from murder, attempted murder and pointing a firearm.
The matters will be heard at the Wesley Methodist Church, corner Visagie and Andries Streets, Pretoria.
The first applicant, Isaack Ntoka, an ANC Youth League member, has applied for killing an unknown IFP member at Rathanda near Heidelberg on 21 August 1992.
The applicant has implicated May Mnguni, a councillor in Rathanda Township as the person who issued the instruction, to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela as a supplier of weapons. The matter will be heard on Wednesday.
On Monday, the Amnesty Committee will hear amnesty applications of three former members of the ANC's army, Umkhonto We Sizwe for their role in an attack on an SADF base at Nkowankowa stadium in the Northern Province on 1 April 1990. The applicants, John Khombomuni Ngobeni, Stranger Jabulani Mbhalati and MuhlavaMuhlava have also applied for attacking police patrols in the same area. On Tuesday, the Committee will hear the amnesty application of Frans Tlokwe Maserumule an MK member, for attacking an SADF anti-insurgency base in Tonga in the Northern Province.
Proceedings for these matters will start at 10.00am.
Issued by: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission
For more information call Mbulelo Sompetha at 082 452 7870.