Decision

Type AMNESTY DECISIONS
Starting Date 23 October 1998
Names ANTHONY SIPHO MNISI
Case Number AC/98/0068
Matter AM 0909/96
Decision REFUSED
URL http://sabctrc.saha.org.za/hearing.php?id=58628&t=&tab=hearings
Original File http://sabctrc.saha.org.za/originals/decisions/1998/981023_mnisi.htm

DECISION

After considering the application in chambers, the Committee is satisfied that the applicant, ANTHONY SIPHO MNISI, is

NOT ENTITLED: to amnesty for armed robbery of a truck and its load of powder soap.

The applicant states that he robbed the victim of the said property in order to sell it and, with the money from the proceeds, buy weapons to protect himself and others due to the high rate of violence in the area where he lived. He does not indicate that he acted in pursuance of a political objective or on the instructions of any organisation of a political nature.

Accordingly the application for amnesty is

REFUSED: . The reason is that the act of stealing property is too remote to the act of buying weapons and is not an act associated with a political objective.

SIGNED ON THIS 23RD DAY OF OCTOBER 1998