decisions AMNESTY DECISIONS PIETER JOHAN VERSTER AC/99/0194 AM 5471/97 GRANTED https://sabctrc.saha.org.za/hearing.php?id=58872&t=&tab=hearings https://sabctrc.saha.org.za/originals/decisions/1999/ac990194.htm DECISION The applicant applies for amnesty as an accessory after the fact in the murders of the Nietverdiendt Ten, The Ribeiros and Piet Ntuli. He was at the time a member of the Special Forces of the SADF serving under General Joubert and had the rank of colonel. He commanded a unit of the Special Forces which was tasked with assisting the SAP police in combating the onslaught by the liberation forces in the Johannesburg area. He did not participate in the execution of any of the above murders but was aware of the planning and afterwards associated himself therewith. The facts concerning the above mentioned offences appear fully from the decisions in Applications No's: 2773/96, 3799/96, 5453/97 and other applications dealt with in those decisions. The Committee is satisfied that the applicant has made a full disclosure of all relevant facts within his knowledge pertaining to the abovementioned. He met the requirements laid down in section 20(1), (2) and (3) of the Act and amnesty is GRANTED to the applicant in respect of 1. Any acts of preparation, conspiring, aiding or abetting and as an accessory after the facts in respect of murder of the ten males known as the Nietverdiendt Ten at a near Nietverdiendt in the district of Thabazimbi on or about 26th June 1986; the murders of Dr and Mrs Ribeiro at Mamelodi during or about December 1986 and; in the murder of Mr Piet Ntuli in KwaNdebele during July 1986. 2. Any other offence directly linked and directly related to the facts and disclosed in applicant's application and evidence in respect of the aforementioned murders including defeating the ends of justice, the using of explosives and the malicious damage of property. SIGNED ON THE 21ST OF MAY 1999.