AC/99/0165

TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION

AMNESTY COMMITTEE

APPLICATION IN TERMS OF SECTION 18 OF THE PROMOTION OF NATIONAL UNITY AND RECONCILIATION ACT, NO.34 OF 1995.

SIBONGISENI LEONARD SITHOLE APPLICANT

(AM 1001/96

DECISION

  1. The Committee, after having considered the application and relevant documentation, is satisfied that:

    1. the application complies with the requirements of the Act, Act 34 of 1995;

    2. the act, omission or offence to which the application relates are acts associated with a political objective committed in the course of the conflicts of the past;

    3. that the relevant facts relating to the particular offence have been disclosed.

2. Amnesty is therefore GRANTED in respect of the following offences:

    1. the illegal possession of a handgrenade and

    2. the illegal possession of ammunition for which he was sentenced to 4 (four) years imprisonment in the Umlazi Regional Court on the 7th September 1994.

SIGNED AT CAPE TOWN THIS THE 1ST DAY OF APRIL 1999

SIGNED