22 June 2000
Venue: Durban Pine Town Magistrates Court
The Amnesty Committee of the TRC will on Thursday, 22 June, hear a part-heard amnesty applications into the abduction of a former Umkhonto We Sizwe member, Portia Ndwandwe from Swaziland by Durban Security policemen assisted by two ANC informers in 1988.
The police claim that they had information that Ndwandwe was an active member of MK and that she was involved in a number of attacks on security Policemen.
As a result of the information, a proposal was made by Colonel Andy Taylor, Head of Operations (now Deceased) and Colonel Hentie Botha, Head of Intelligence, to abduct her from Swaziland. She was taken to Durban where she was interrogated and tortured. She was later killed and buried in a farm near Verulam after she refused to be turned into an informer.
The applicants are former head of the Intelligence in Durban, Hentie Botha, Albertus Steyn, Colonel Andy Taylor (now deceased), Roelof Visagie,
Colonel JA Vorster, Louis Wasserman. The Committe is expected to make a ruling on whether to reveal the identity of the ANC informers to the public or not.
Amnesty matters for the week starting June 24, will be announced in due course.
The Amnesty Panel will consist of Judge Wilson, Advocate Sibongile Sigodi and Wynand Malan for the proccedings.
For more information, call Mbulelo Sompetha at 082 452 7870.
Issued by the TRC