This is an application for amnesty in terms of Section 18 of the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, No.34 of 1995 ("the Act").
The facts briefly are that the Applicant left the Republic of South Africa in 1963 as a member of the African National Congress ("ANC") and Umkhonto weSizwe ("MK"), its military wing. In 1972, acting on orders and instructions of the ANC, the Applicant was infiltrated into the country. He was arrested in 1973 and convicted and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment for terrorism, which sentence he completed in 1988.
We are satisfied that the offence in question constitutes an act associated with a political objective as envisaged in the Act and that the application complies with all the other requirements of the Act.
Amnesty is accordingly hereby GRANTED to the Applicant for the offence of terrorism as specified above.