Issued by: Truth and Reconciliation Commission
19 September 2000
THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION
AMNESTY DECISION
The Amnesty Committee of TRC today granted amnesty to seven African National Congress security personnel for murders, attempted murders, kidnapping and the assaults with intention to do grievous bodily harm in the ANC camps.
The offences were said to have happened in the ANC camps in Maputo, Kibashe in Angola, and Lusaka in Zambia between 1982 and 1987. During this period the ANC security personnel detained and interrogated people who they believed were agents of the state.
Granted amnesty by the Committee were Mandlenkosi Mandlazi, Thobo Sphambo, Mzwandile Ndaba, Motlalenloa Charles Lieta, Mathesi Mangena, Mzwandile Damoyi and Moruti Noosi. The Committee accepted that if the objective was to discipline members the organisation in order to build effective military organisation to fight the political struggle, offences associated with that objective would fall within the definition of the act.
Also granted amnesty were five members of the security police for murder of Oupa Madondo, the desecration of the corpse and disposal of his body near a farm Leeuspoort at Candover. Granted amnesty were Johan VanZyl, Spence Gold, Schalk Visser, Gerhardus Schoon and Disre Carr.
The Committee found that the act, omission to which the application relates is an act associated with a political objective and offences were committed in the course of the conflict of the past. The Committee referred the Madondo next of kin to the Reparation and Rehabilitation Committee for consideration.
The committee further granted amnesty to Joseph Koetle an ANC cadre for acts of sabotage on the railway stations in Mzimhlophe and Phomoleng , murder of Constable P.T. Makhalemele and escape from the Moaroka police station between 1993 and 1987. The panel found that Koetle met the requirements of the Act that of full disclosure and that crimes committed are associated with a political objective.
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