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	<type>AMNESTY DECISIONS</type>
				<names>PAUL JACOBUS HATTINGH</names>
		<matter>AM3916/97</matter>
				<decision>GRANTED</decision>
	<url>https://sabctrc.saha.org.za/hearing.php?id=59525&amp;t=&amp;tab=hearings</url>
	<originalhtml>https://sabctrc.saha.org.za/originals/decisions/2001/ac21244.htm</originalhtml>
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			<text>DECISION</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>The applicant applied for amnesty   in respect of the bomb explosions and malicious damage to property at COSATU   House and Khotso House.</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>He testified that at the time he was in charge of the explosives   training unit and the bomb disposal unit.  He received instructions from Brigadier   Schoon to assist General Erasmus and Colonel De Kock to carry out the operations.</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>The facts have been fully dealt   with in decision AC99/0242 and for the reasons mentioned therein amnesty is   GRANTED to the Applicant in respect of:-</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>Conspiracy to commit and the committing   of:</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>1.    Public violence and malicious damage to the property   known as Khotso House on the 31 August 1988 at Johannesburg.</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>2.    The unlawful possession of arms, ammunition and explosives   for the purpose of committing the offences referred to under (1) above.</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>3.    Defeating the ends of justice by inter alia spreading   disinformation about the possible involvement of Shirley Gunn in the explosion.</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>4.    Any other offence or delict directly or indirectly   linked to the explosion caused at Khotso House on 31 August 1988 based on the   facts and disclosed in the evidence before the Committee at the hearing.</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>DATED AT CAPE TOWN THIS    DAY OF                  2001.</text>
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			<text>JUDGE   A WILSON</text>
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			<text>ACTING   JUDGE C DE JAGER</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>ADV.   L GCABASHE</text>
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			<text>MR   J B SIBANYONI</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>??</text>
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		<line number="16">
			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>/...</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>3</text>
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