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				<names>HOFFMAN BOY MHLONGO</names>
		<matter>AM 4456/96</matter>
				<decision>REFUSED</decision>
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			<text>DECISION</text>
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			<text>THE BACKGROUND AND THE POLITICAL   CLIMATE</text>
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			<text>THE INCIDENT</text>
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			<text>The applicant&#039;s application will   be dealt with solely on his own evidence.</text>
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			<text>&quot;Yes, but I cannot be absolutely   sure about that----------.&quot;</text>
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			<text>&quot;The reason why we did not   leave him, was because we were not certain whether he had been telling us the   truth and because of the reason that there were hostel residents who had families   who drove taxis, they could perhaps identify him if he was really an ANC person&quot;.</text>
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			<text>At page 364 he was again asked   why the driver had to be taken back to Jeppe:</text>
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			<text>It is the Committee&#039;s view that   the applicant was desperately trying to bring his actions within the ambit of   the Act.</text>
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			<text>The Committee is however as a   result of these discrepancies not satisfied that there was any political motive   for the killing of Mr Ngwenya.</text>
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			<text>Accordingly amnesty is REFUSED.</text>
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			<text>JUDGE S MILLER</text>
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			<text>ACTING JUDGE DE JAGER</text>
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			<text>??</text>
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			<text>2</text>
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