21 July 2000
The Amnesty Committee of the TRC will hold two different hearings in Pretoria next week - the ANC Quatro matters at the Idasa Centre and Dekock's matters at the Wesley Methodist Church. A separate statement on the continuation ANC Quatro matters which started on July 17, has been issued and the hearings continue until July 28.
In the matters that will take place at the Wesley Methodist Church on Monday 24 July 2000, Eugene De Kock, applies for attempted murder, assault, and damage to property. He says he trained Askaris in the use of knives and pistols who were subsequently deployed in Swaziland. The Askari by the name of Ndam, stabbed to death an unnamed ANC member in Swaziland.
In the second matter, De Kock, Wybrandt du Toit and Jacobus Kok are applying for attempted murder and of obstructing justice. He says he was approached by Anton Niewoudt of Directorate of Covert Collection to assist in manufacturing a manuscript with explosives. The manuscript was a biography of an Mk member whom they had intercepted. An ANC courier who opened the package in Swaziland was injured when the package went off. Implicated are Brigadier Willem Schoon and Anton Niewoudt.
These matters are scheduled to be heard from Monday 24 July to 28.
On July 31, 12 applicants will appear before the Committee for their roles in attacking Botswana on June 14 1985. The applicants are Lodewyk de Jager, Johannes Meyer, Anton Pretorius, Willem Coetzee, Manuel Oliphant, Phillip Crause, Stanley Schutte, Christoffel Du Preez Smit, Wikus Johannes Loots Petrus Coetzee, John Mcpherson and Johannes Albertus Steyn.
Implicated persons are General Magnus Malan, Colonel Kallie Steyn, PW Botha, General Herman Stadler, General Johan Van Der Merwe, Pik Botha, Commander Charl Naude, General Johan Coetzee, General Constand Viljoen, Major Craig Williamson, General Kat Liebenberg (deceased), Col. Joe Verster, Col. Joubert, Col. Hill, Col. At Nel (Military Intelligence) and Minister Louis Le Grange (deceased).
The victims were Thami Mnyele, Michael Frank Hamlyn, Cecil George Phahle, Lindiwe Phahle, Joseph Malaza, Themba Duke Matshobane, Peter Masoke (age 6) Mkhulu Basil Zondi- wife and daughter shot and wounded, Busi Mokoena was wounded in the thigh, Elina Mahlangu wounded and is now deceased, Somalian Ahmed Geer and his Dutch wife who was seriously wounded, two Botswana women, Galdys Kesupile and Eugenia Kobole, two people were wounded at a roadblock, a white male wounded in the leg and his black girlfriend was shot in the back.
Issued by: The TRC
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