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	<type>AMNESTY DECISIONS</type>
				<names>DIME MATTHEWS KEKANA</names>
		<matter>AM 5885/97</matter>
				<decision>GRANTED</decision>
	<url>https://sabctrc.saha.org.za/hearing.php?id=59470&amp;t=&amp;tab=hearings</url>
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			<text>DECISION</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>The applicant applies for amnesty   in respect of treason.</text>
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		<line number="3">
			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>The applicant, at all relevant   times, was a member of the African National Congress (the ANC) and Umkontho   WeSizwe (MK).</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text></text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>It is evident from the documentation   before us that the offences committed by the applicant were acts associated   with a political objective committed in the course of the conflicts of the past   in accordance with the provisions of Section 20 of the Promotion of National   Unity and Reconciliation Act, No. 34 of 1995.</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>Applicant is GRANTED amnesty in   respect of treason for which he was convicted to 14 years imprisonment by the   then Supreme Court of Sourth Witwatersrand Local Division, on 31 January 1986.</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>Signed in CAPE TOWN this the 6th   Day of November 2000</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>__________________</text>
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		<line number="9">
			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>__________________</text>
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		<line number="10">
			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>__________________</text>
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		<line number="11">
			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>??</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>2</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>/...</text>
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