Decisions

: DECISION

The applicant was a member of uMkhonto weSizwe. He illegally entered into the country during June 1988 and thereafter, until December 1988, recruited people as members of the African national Congress (which was then a banned organisation), established a number of underground cells and conspired to disrupt the municipal elections of 1988. All of these activities took place in the Vaal Triangle area. He was arrested and charged with contravening the provisions of Section 54(1) of Act 74 of 1982, together with a number of alternative charges. He was convicted and sentenced to undergo a term of imprisonment of twelve years. His sentence was reduced on appeal to an effective term of five years imprisonment.

We are satisfied that the offences committed by the applicant were committed with a political objective, that the applicant has made a full disclosure and that the application complies with the requirements of the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act No. 34 of 1995. We are also of the view that this matter may be dealt with in terms of Section 19(3)(b) of that Act.

In the result, the applicant is

GRANTED: amnesty in respect of those offences committed by himself which led to him being convicted in the Potchefstroom Regional Court during 1989 of contravening provisions of Act No. 74 of 1982.

(Signed)