DECISION
The applicants apply for various   acts in an operation where Mr Jameson Ngoloyi Mngomezulu was abducted from his   home in Swaziland, seriously ill-treated, eventually killed and his body disposed   of through an explosion at Sodwana Bay.
First Applicant (De Kock) testified that sometime during   1986 or 1987 he received a call from the Fifth Applicant Schoon requesting him   to assist in the abduction of Mngomezulu from his home (kraal) in Swaziland   for the purpose of interrogation with regard to Mngomezulu's involvement in   the infiltration of ANC into the Northern Natal platteland, the caching of arms   and planned attacks.  De Kock, as head of Vlakplaas at the time, had knowledge   of these activities from security reports emanating from Northern Natal and   Eastern Transvaal and had already on 3 or 4 occasions been at the kraal of Mngomezulu.    No action, however,  had been taken because at the time of the request by Schoon,   Mngomezulu had not yet been a target.
The Security Branch was, however, generally concerned about   the increase of rural terror and there had been skirmishes with the police in   which one policeman was killed and another wounded.  De Kock cleared the request   with Brigadier Willem Schoon, also because the Brigadier was a brother of Schoon   (the Fifth Applicant).
De Kock subsequently instructed the Sixth Applicant (Van   Dyk) to abduct Mngomezulu and deliver him to Schoon.  This was to take place   during one of the normal deployments of Vlakplaas members.  He remembers the   involvement of the so-called "heavy weight Askaris", namely the 2nd,   3rd and 4th Applicants and remembers also the names of the 9th and 10th Applicants   also being involved in the operation.
After the return of Vlakplaas members at the end of their   3 weeks term of deployment, Van Dyk reported to  him that Mngomezulu had been   killed and his body disposed of on the missile grounds near Sodwana.  He, in   turn, reported to Brigadier Schoon that "the Person does not exist any   more".  At no state was he present during the operation.  He was, however,   aware that the person would be killed if not recruited as an Askari.
Pursuant to De Kock's instructions, Van Dyk proceeded, with   the assistance of Moses Nzimandi (deceased) and the second (Koole), fourth (Mbelo),   ninth (Mngadi) and tenth (Nofemela) Applicants, to abduct Mngomezulu.  They   entered Swaziland at the Golela border post.  An informer accompanied the group,   who went in two vehicles, to point out Mngomezulu's home.  Mngomezulu, resisting,   was kidnapped and severely assaulted.  While the drivers of the vehicles passed   through the border gate, the rest of the party crossed on foot with Mngomezulu   and boarded the vehicles on the South African side.  The Applicants differ in   their accounts as to where Mngomezulu was then taken.  The majority seems to   recall that he was first taken to Moolman near Piet Retief and later (some say   that same night and others say the next day) to a deserted farmhouse near the   Josini dam.  Others insist that they went directly to the farmhouse in the Josini   area.
The fact that Moolman venue is probably more than 150 kilometres   further from the point of abduction than the Josini farmhouse and the fact that   Josini was within the area of jurisdiction of Schoon, whereas the Moolman venue   falls under the area of jurisdiction of Pienaar, (the Seventh Applicant), favour   the likelihood that Mngomezulu was taken directly to Josini.  It is certainly   highly unlikely that they would have done a detour of in excess of 300 kilometres   if indeed they did eventually proceed to Josini on the same night of the abduction.    Nothing much turns on this and can be ascribed to poor memory due to the lapse   of at least 14 years of time.
It is common cause that Mngomezulu was severely assaulted   from the beginning by virtually everyone of the Applicants present there.  This   continued for a period of 2 to 3 days.  It seems further to be common cause   that if any, no information of value could be extracted from Mngomezulu.  He   seemed to be, if not unconscious at times, not in a state of full consciousness   for most of the time.  From the evidence of the Applicants, it is clear that   he was continuously subjected to sever assault, at times without so much as   an effort to interrogate him.
At some state all the black members at Josini were ordered   to leave and to go to Moolman.  This included the second, third, fourth, ninth   and tenth Applicants.  The fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth Applicants and one   Willemse, another Vlakplaas member who did not apply for amnesty, remained behind.    It is from this moment on that the versions, broadly speaking, of the 5th, 6th   and 7th Applicants (Schoon, Van Dyk and Pienaar) and the 8th Applicant (Beeslaar)   differ in very material respects.
All the Applicants testified before the Committee.  Applicants   2, 3, 4, 9 and 10 could only testify in regard to their involvement up to the   moment when they were ordered to leave Josini for Moolman.  There were differences   of account in relation to a number of aspects, for example the role of the informer,   whether the abduction to Josini/Moolman, the various acts of fellow Applicants   at various times, etc.  None of these were in the opinion of the Committee so   material as to necessitate any further consideration and can be ascribed to   honest but different recollections of an incident (among many) which happened   more than 13 years ago.
There is, however, one aspect that required to be dealt   with.  Applicants 2 (Koole) and 3 (Mogoai) claimed that the First Applicant   (De Kock) was present during the operation arriving a short while after the   abduction.  According to Mogoai, De Kock assaulted Mngomezulu and also gave   orders for the operation to be moved from Moolman to Josini.  Koole cannot recall   ever having abducted Mngomezulu to Moolman but also places De Kock at the scene   at Josini.  These 2 Applicants under cross-examination and questioning by the   Committee contradicted themselves many times on this issue yet insisted that   De Kock was present.  Although concessions were made on other issues, they would   not make any concession that they might be mistaken that De Kock had been present   at Josini.  Mr Lamey, representing these two Applicants, used hours and hours   to cross-examine De Kock and each of the other Applicants on this issue.  It   was suggested under cross-examination that the reason for their insistence may   be that they are state witnesses and had originally implicated De Kock, hence   their insistence.  Secondly, Mogoai, the third Applicants, was described by   many as the chief or main interrogator and they ascribed the thrust of the assault   on Mngomezulu to him.  He was evasive but conceded that he put most of the questions   to Mngomezulu as instructed by the white officers.  He also testified that he   did assault Mngomezulu by hitting and kicking him.
Each and every other Applicant   denied any involvement by De Kock during the operation.
The question that really arises   is whether in view of these inconsistencies a truthful disclosure has been made   and further whether De Kock has been falsely implicated in this regard.
After a careful consideration   of the matter, we have not been able to find any reason for a wilful false implication   on the part of the two Applicants against De Kock and ascribe their testimony   in this regard to poor memory or faulty recollection of facts.
The Committee is therefore satisfied   that Applicants Two, Three, Four, None and Ten have made a full disclosure as   required by the Act.
We now turn to the assessment   of the evidence of the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Applicants on the one hand and   that of the Eighth Applicant on the other hand.
At the outset it should be mentioned that the Fifth, Sixth   and Seventh Applicants, when they originally applied for amnesty, were represented   by the same lawyer or lawyers, ie either Mrs van der Walt or Mr Prinsloo, or   both of them.  Their written applications were drawn dealing with all salient   aspects in virtually the same wording.  These aspects include:
*     The absolute minimization of their individual roles.
*     None of the three Applicants make any mention of their   participation in the interrogation and assault on Mngomezulu.  All three state   that he was interrogated and severely assaulted by Vlakplaas members.
*     Mngomezulu appeared to have suffered a lot of punishment   and that he was not thinking clearly.
*     They jointly decided that it would serve no purpose   to interrogate Mngomezulu any further and therefore decided to take him back   to Macks Pass on the Swaziland border.
*     They loaded Mngomezulu in a vehicle for the purpose   of returning him to the Swaziland Border, covered him with a canvas and left   for Swaziland.  At that time he was still alive.
*     They instructed Beeslaar (the 8th Applicant) and another   member (according to Beeslaar one Willemse, who did not apply for amnesty) who   travelled in another vehicle, to wait for them at the turn off at the dam wall,   while they went to the house of Schoon to check if there were any messages for   him.
*     When they arrived at Schoon's home, they lifted the   canvas and saw that Mngomezulu was dead.
*     The three of them decided to get rid of the body and   travelled in a Southerly direction along the coast of Sodwana.
*     At a certain point Beeslaar and the other member (Willemse)   were left behind and the three of them drove a few kilometres further where   Schoon destroyed the corpse with explosives.
Applicants 5, 6 and 7 all gave   oral testimony at the hearing.
The 6th Applicant (Van Dyk) confirmed the first Applicant's   (De Kock) evidence as it related to him.  They went down to Piet Retief for   work in a scheduled deployment.  One night during this period they abducted   Mngomezulu and took him to Piet Retief where he (Van Dyk) and all the black   members interrogated Mngomezulu.  He later contacted Pienaar to assist in the   interrogation because Pienaar was in possession of more information that would   facilitate the interrogation.
They remained there that night and the following day.  He   is not sure whether he contacted Schoon on the same night or the following day.    They proceeded to a farm Leeuwspoor in the Josini area where Mngomezulu was   further interrogated.  He (Van Dyk) slapped Mngomezulu but did not maltreat   him.  He left at some stage to attend to other matters in Middelburg and on   his return observed that Mngomezulu had been seriously assaulted.  He had lacerations   on his face and body.  They nevertheless proceeded with the interrogation.
Schoon tried to recruit Mngomezulu as a source but was unsuccessful.    They then loaded him onto a vehicle and departed for Josini where they would   decide what to do with him.  On the way they discussed the matter and decided   to return him to the Swaziland border in the Ingwavuma district.  En route they   went past Schoon's office to check for urgent message.  On arrival there, the   three of them checked on Mngomezulu and it appeared that Mngomezulu had died.    Schoon had explosives.  They decided to destroy the body so as not to leave   any evidence pointing back to them.
They met with Beeslaar and another (Willemse) at the turnoff.    They did not tell them anything.  At some point at Sodwana they left them behind   so as not to involve them in the further developments.  The three of them disposed   of the body on the beach.  It was low tide.  The next morning they went back   to the scene.  It again was low tide.  Nothing could be seen that would have   left any traces.
Under cross-examination by Mr Hatting on behalf of De Kock,   Van Dyk told the Committee that fists, feet, a stick and a wet bag was used   during the assault.  When he returned from Middelburg he found Mngomezulu fully   conscious and he could still move freely.  Only the next day did he lose consciousness.    It could be due to the interrogation and lack of sleep.  He (Van Dyk) conceded   that he did participate in the assault.  He hit Mngomezulu with wood or rubber   on his head.  They did not tell Beeslaar about the disposal of the body.  The   period from abduction to disposal of the body was three days.
Under cross-examination by Mr Lamey on behalf of the 2nd   and 3rd Applicants, Van Dyk said that the black members did not know that they   were to get rid of Mngomezulu's body.  There was no need to discuss it with   them.  They had done their part.
Responding to questions put by   the panel, Van Dyk said:
*     The reasons why they wanted to stop at Josini was   to again try to persuade Mngomezulu to become a source for them.
*     In relation to obtaining information, the operation   was not successful.
*     That De Kock's instruction indeed was to deliver Mngomezulu   to Schoon.
*     That Mngomezulu was always blindfolded and that there   was no risk of recognising any one of them.
*     The idea to again try to recruit Mngomezulu at Josini   was never discussed with Beeslaar.
Pienaar (7th Applicant) then gave his oral testimony.  He   had no prior knowledge of the abduction.  He was requested to get involved in   the interrogation only on the morning after the abduction.  He had some information   about activities in the Northern Natal region where Mngomezulu was active in   the Ingwavuma district, which fell under Security Branch Josini, although his   own responsibility was in the Eastern Transvaal.
He, together with two other members of Vlakplaas, interrogated   Mngomezulu and assaulted him by kicking and slapping him.  Mngomezulu would   not speak.  He did not disclose any information.  He believes that this was   due to the fact that Mngomezulu was of the old guard and his pride would not   allow him to respond to the young men of his own race interrogating him.  (This   he confirmed again when cross-examined by Mr Kgasi on behalf of the family of   Mngomezulu).
They moved Mngomezulu to Josini   where he was further interrogated and assaulted, also by Schoon.
Asked by his attorney to respond to Van Dyk's version that   Mngomezulu  was to be released, he stated that he did not agree with Schoon's   view.  It would make not sense to return to him to the border because of his   injuries.
There were talks about recruiting Mngomezulu as an informer.    This, too, he did not agree with.  It simply would not have been achieved at   all.
At the Security Branch offices he lifted the canvas.  Mngomezulu   had died.  They then decided to get rid of the body.  They met up with Beeslaar   and Willemse who waited for them at the dam wall.  After disposal they slept   on the beach, went to the place of the explosion the next morning and finding   no traces, left.
Under cross-examination by Mr du Plessis for Beeslaar, Pienaar   said that when Mngomezulu was loaded onto the bakkie, he was in a coma.  The   canvas was lifted at Josini in order to allow Mngomezulu some fresh air.   They   saw that he had died.  They could see that he was dead and did not feel his   pulse to confirm their observation.  It was evident that he was dead.  He could   not remember any patrols in the area before Mngomezulu's death but could not   contest it.  He cannot dispute Beeslaar's statement that he (Beeslaar) knew   Mngomezulu would be eliminated.  He disputes, however, Beeslaar's version that   when they had reached the beach, Mngomezulu walked with them.  Although there   was never any decision to eliminate Mngomezulu, he never agreed to his release.    To do so would have been fatal.  it was Schoon's suggestion.  Likewise he did   not support Schoon's suggestion to use him as an informer.  As far as he was   concerned the only way with Mngomezulu was to kill him.  Van Dyk shared his   view.
Asked under cross-examination by Mrs van der Walt for Van   Dyk whether Beeslaar was sober, Pienaar said he was drunk.  The statement that   Van Dyk shared his view about killing Mngomezulu was not challenged. 
In cross-examination by Mr Kgasi for the victim's family,   Pienaar said that he cannot recall that Mngomezulu was ever blindfolded.  He   did not agree with the suggestion to release Mngomezulu because he had been   seriously assaulted, he would have continued his activities and it would have   created an international incident, members of the Police having abducted him   from Swaziland, interrogated and tortured him.
Asked by members of the Committee as to how they intended   to release Mngomezulu, Pienaar replied that he never ever entertained that possibility,   nor that of recruiting him as an informer.  The suggestion was made by Schoon   in the vehicle on the way to Josini.  Both he and Van Dyk disagreed.
Schoon then gave his testimony.  The Committee was referred   to his written application.  Mr Prinsloo, Schoon's lawyer, referred him to De   Kock's evidence in regard to the request he had received from Schoon to have   Mngomezulu abducted.  His reply was that he could not remember that De Kock   had phoned him.  Prinsloo asked how, to his recollection, the request was made.    He believed that the request to De Kock was made to him in person.
He knew Mngomezulu only on paper, that is from file material.    Mngomezulu was the most important link in ANC infiltration into the RSA.  He   (Schoon) was involved in a number of investigations.  He probably did make contact   and discussed the matter with De Kock.
He received a call from Van Dyk who requested him to meet   him at Leeuwspoor.  He asked no questions.  The farmhouse was regularly used   for operations.  When he arrived, the others were already there.  This happened   on an evening.
Van Dyk ordered him to conduct an interrogation of Mngomezulu.    He did so, did not get any information except a few names of people that he   did not know.  He never assaulted Mngomezulu.  He decided that continued interrogation   would serve no purpose and that he had to be returned to Swaziland.  Of the   two options, that is, either to kill Mngomezulu or to release him, the latter   was the more acceptable.  That is why he tried to recruit him as informer.    He was not successful because Mngomezulu died before finality was reached.    He could not be coerced by the others to kill Mngomezulu.  He knew the chances   were close to zero that any information would come his way after releasing Mngomezulu   but it was more acceptable than killing him.
He was asked whether he had considered the consequences   of release and he said he had.  Only a report to the Swazi Police would have   resulted.  Even if they had investigated, the Swazi Police would not have been   able to prove anything against the South African Police.
When he was at his home in Josini to check for messages,   he, Van Dyk and Pienaar lifted the canvas and realized that Mngomezulu was dead.    He proposed the destruction of the body with explosives.  He fetched a 25 kg   box of plastics, a reel of electric cable and a case of detonators.  Beeslaar   and Willemse were waiting for them at the turnoff to Sodwana on the other side   of the Josini dam on the road from Josini to the Ingwavuma/Swaziland border.    They met them, proceeded to Sodwana and travelled South along the coast for   approximately 30 kilometres where they left Beeslaar and Willemse.  He believes   Van Dyk instructed Beeslaar and Willemse to warn them of any arrival of others.    They then drove another two kilometres where the body was disposed of.  They   stayed the night and scouted the area the following morning.
He denies any patrols as suggested by Beeslaar's testimony.    Beeslaar was a passenger and was drunk.  He (Schoon) had been a policeman for   20 years and he can see when a person is drunk.
In cross-examination by Mr du Plessis on behalf of Beeslaar,   Schoon said that he, Van Dyk and Pienaar travelled in the bakkie while Beeslaar   and Willemse travelled in Van Dyk's car.  He only saw that Beeslaar was drunk   after the explosion.  The reason why Beeslaar and Willemse accompanied them   was to provide transport back for Van Dyk and Pienaar.  He cannot remember that   Mngomezulu was at any stage blindfolded.  He took the decision to release him.    The other members did not agree with him.  He intended to turn Mngomezulu as   an askari at Josini (at his home) when they left Leeuwspoor for Swaziland, although   he had realized that that possibility was remote.
On questions by the Committee, Schoon insisted that by looking   at a person he could establish whether a person was in a coma or dead.  He could   not explain why Beeslaar and Willemse had to drive to the turnoff if he was   still intent on turning Mngomezulu as an Askari at Josini.  He could only say   that it was because the decision to release him had already been taken.  Surprisingly   on the way to Josini they were still arguing about whether to release or eliminate   Mngomezulu, although he had already decided to release him.
Beeslaar gave the following version in his written application.    He was part of the administrative staff at C10.  His tasks included the registration   of rehabilitated members of ANC or PAC.  He assumes that he was sent to attend   to such an attestation by De Kock.  He arrived at the base in Piet Retief on   a Saturday afternoon.  Mngomezulu was brought to them where he was interrogated   and assaulted, yet not seriously so.  A day or two later Mngomezulu was taken   to an old house next to the Josini dam.  He went on patrol with other (white)   members inter alia also in the area where the defence force tested missiles   and to which access was prohibited to the public.  
Two or three days after they had arrived at Josini, Mngomezulu   was loaded onto Schoon's bakkie.  He, Pienaar, Willemse, Van Dyk and Schoon   left in two vehicles.  He then already knew that Mngomezulu would be eliminated.    They left for Sodwana and travelled south.  They stopped.  He recalls himself   staying in Van Dyk's car with Willemse while the others left with Mngomezulu,   the latter walking with them.  He does not know what they took along but did   know that Mngomezulu was to be eliminated.  They returned after an hour.  He   cannot remember having heard an explosion but knew that Mngomezulu had been   killed.  They slept there overnight and went walking on the beach the next morning.    At a point they stopped.  From the discussion he deduced that it was where Mngomezulu   had been killed.  No signs or traces were found.  He does not know how he was   killed but he was told that Mngomezulu was blown up with explosives.  He returned   to Vlakplaas before the operational team.  He was under the command of Van Dyk.
Beeslaar also gave oral testimony.  He explained that the   objective of the patrols was to observe the area.  He had then already heard   Schoon, Van Dyk and Pienaar talking about the use of explosives and they had   to make sure that there were no people in the area that might hear the explosion.    On the way to Sodwana he drove Van Dyk's vehicles, Willemse accompanying him,   while the other three travelled in Schoon's bakkie.  At some stage Schoon turned   off the main road and they waited ahead.
In cross-examination by Advocate Prinsloo on behalf of Schoon   and Pienaar, he said that he had remained in Schoon's carat the place where   the vehicles were parked, while the other three had walked on foot with Mngomezulu.    He could not remember seeing them carrying the explosives.  It was fairly dark.    He did not know how Mngomezulu was killed.  He was probably shot first.  He   did however not resist when they walked from the cars.  He (Beeslaar) had not   asked any questions.  He associated himself with the fact that Mngomezulu was   to be killed.
Responding to other questions,   Beeslaar remembered the incident to have lasted from the late Saturday afternoon   to the following Thursday.
The Committee is unable to reconcile the evidence of the   8th Applicant (Beeslaar) with that of the 5th, 6th and 7th Applicants (Schoon,   Van Dyk and Pienaar) in various respects.  Cardinal to these differences are   the versions relating to the way in which Mngomezulu came to his death.
Central to the issue, is the requirement   of full disclosure.
On Beeslaar's version, Mngomezulu was killed on the beach   at Sodwana Bay, either before or by destroying his body with explosives, by   Schoon, Van Dyk and Pienaar, the killing and destruction of the body having   been preplanned.  On the version of Schoon, Van Dyk and Pienaar, Mngomezulu   died, probably as a result of the assaults, on the way to Piet Retief, the possibility   of which they had foreseen when he was abducted.
Clearly, the conflicting versions are not of the nature   of a bona fide interpretation of facts.  They are of the essence of fact.  They   cannot both reasonably be true.
On having weighed all the evidence before the Committee,   the Committee has come to the conclusion that the probabilities strongly favour   the version as presented by Beeslaar.  Although there were some inconsistencies   in the evidence of Beeslaar, they were not related to material aspects surrounding   the incident.  The Beeslaar version, related to the events themselves, holds   no clear improbabilities.
The Schoon, Van Dyk, Pienaar version   on the other hand is full of improbabilities such as:-
*     Schoon's insistence that Mngomezulu was to be released   at the border post, him having taken that decision;  placing the decision en   route to Josini and Pienaar disagreeing (maintaining that Van Dyk shared his   view and not Schoon's), the risk of exposure of individuals, the risk to the   Security Branch in general and the probable international repercussions, confirmed   by Pienaar, renders this Schoon/Van Dyk version improbable.
*     Schoon's written application alleges his involvement   only to the extent of his assistance to Van Dyk in the interrogation and his   oral testimony conceding De Kock's version of his (Schoon's) original request,   does not measure up to his strong stance vis-a-vis Van Dyk and Pienaar on the   release of Mngomezulu.  (In the written application of Schoon, he alleged that   Van Dyk took the decision to release Mngomezulu).
*     It is highly improbable that all the black members   would have been sent away from the Josini farmhouse to Moolman if the intention   was to release Mngomezulu, they in the first instance having done the abduction.    It is more probable that this was done in what appears to have been the usual   pattern, after a decision to kill and/or dispose of a body, not involving black   members or Askaris, had already been taken at Leeuwspoor.
*     It is improbable that Beeslaar (and Willemse) would   have been instructed to wait at the turnoff to Sodwana Bay if the intention   was to proceed further northwards to the Ingwauma/Swaziland border.  It is improbable   that that would have been done if the intention was to first further question   Mngomezulu on a final endeavour to recruit him, as an askari, given his state   of consciousness and considering the duration of time that Beeslaar and Willemse   would have had to wait for them.  It is even more improbable that none of Schoon,   Van Dyk and Pienaar, would have said anything to Beeslaar and Willemse about   Mngomezulu having died or about a change of plans from release to disposal of   Mngomezulu's body, if the release was indeed the purpose of the journey and   if no prior decision to kill Mngomezulu had been taken.  It is likewise extremely   improbable that the purpose of going to Piet Retief was to check for messages,   given the sensitive nature of the operation.  It is most probable that the purpose   of the detour was simply to obtain the necessary explosives, the fate of Mngomezulu   having had already been decided.
The probabilities therefore are   that it was decided at Leeuwspoor to kill Mngomezulu, that the black members   and Askaris were ordered to return to the base at Moolman, that explosives were   collected at Schoon's office in Josini and that Mngomezulu was subsequently   killed somewhere on the beach at Sodwana and his body disposed of by explosives.
The Committee is satisfied that   the incidents in respect of which amnesty is sought fall within the ambit of   the Act insofar as they occurred within the context of the political conflict   of the past and (on all the versions) would have been perpetrated with a political   objective as envisaged in the Act.
The Committee therefore finds   that Beeslaar, although not clear on detail, made an honest, truthful and full   disclosure and he is therefore GRANTED amnesty.
Schoon and Van Dyk chose to stay within the joint version   of the written application.  That version having been rejected by the Committee,   they are found not to have made full disclosure and their applications (5th   and 6th Applicants) are therefore REFUSED.
Pienaar (7th Applicant) in his evidence, while making it   clear that in his own mind Mngomezulu would never have been released, still   tried to reconcile his own version in oral evidence with the written application   and the evidence of Schoon and Van Dyk by introducing the discussion about a   release having taken place only at the time when they were on the way to Josini.    This of course begs the question again as to why Mngomezulu was removed from   Leeuwspoor at all.  And the answer, as the Committee has found, is clearly that   a decision had already been taken at Leeuwspoor to kill Mngomezulu.  This clearly   was Pienaar's understanding at Leeuwspoor.  Had it not been so, questions would   have been asked there already.  Mngomezulu's (timely) death allegedly on the   way to Josini, established merely by glancing at the victims when arriving at   Josini, is to be contrasted with Beeslaar's version.  It is impossible to reconcile   Pienaar's version with that of Beeslaar as far as the circumstances of Mngomezulu's   death is concerned.  Since the Committee regards this as material for disclosure,   a choice had to be made between the two versions.  For all the reasons relating   to the inconsistencies between Pienaars written application and his oral evidence   as well as the improbabilities mentioned above, the Committee cannot other than   find that Pienaar did not make a full and truthful disclosure and his application,   too, is therefore REFUSED.
De Kock (1st Applicant), Koole   (2nd Applicant), Mogai (3rd Applicant), Mbelo (4th Applicant) Mngadi (9th Applicant)   and Nofemela (10th Applicant) made a full and truthful disclosure and they are   all GRANTED amnesty.
To summarize, amnesty is GRANTED   to the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Applicants and   REFUSED to the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Applicants.
The Committee is further of the   opinion that Jameson Ngoloyi Mngomezulu is a victim as defined in the Act and   his name and particulars of his next-of-kin are being referred to the Committee   on Reparation and Rehabilitation for consideration.
DATED AT CAPE TOWN THIS    DAY OF                  2001.
JUDGE   S KHAMPEPE
JUDGE   N J MOTATA
MR   W MALAN
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