AC/2000/015
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.
ANDREW MAKOFANE APPLICANT
(AM 1474/96)
DECISION
The applicant applies for amnesty in respect of the attempted murder of Lucas and Paulos Skosana on 24 December 1992 at Dennilton, Mpumalanga Province.
On a request for further particulars the applicant replied inter alia:-
"We were youths who were calling themselves comrades although we were not affiliated to any political party. Our main aim was to discipline people who were committing crimes".
While out on bail awaiting trial the applicant and his friends also murdered a shopkeeper.
"The reason for this attack was that we realised we had no money, in case we receive a sentence with an option of a fine in our attempted murder case. As a result we committed this second crime as a way of raising money".
On his own version the applicant was not a member or supporter of a publicly known political organisation and the acts committed were no associated with a political objective.
Amnesty is therefore, REFUSED.
Signed at Cape Town on this the 4th day of February 2000.
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