GRANT, D J

... unity and reconciliation. 8 A major source of conflict in public debate concerned the question of amnesty. As already mentioned, the decision to grant amnesty was a feature of the negotiated political settlement and became a central responsibility of the Commission. Many participants, however, ...

of such violations, their fate or present whereabouts and the nature and extent of the harm suffered by such victims; c facilitate and promote the granting of amnesty in respect of acts associated with political objectives, by receiving from persons desiring to make a full disclosure of all the ...

... Act (the Act) unconstitutional. The effect of section 20(7), read with other sections of the Act, is to permit the Amnesty Committee to grant amnesty to a perpetrator of an act associated with a political objective and committed before 6 December 1993 (later changed to 10 May 1994). A ...

... such violations, their fate or present whereabouts and the nature and extent of the harm suffered by such victims; c facilitate and promote the granting of amnesty in respect of acts associated with political objectives, by receiving from persons desiring to make a full disclosure of all the ...

the reaction in certain quarters had Mr Botha been a member of the ANC. 39 We were told that we revealed our true colours when blanket amnesty was granted to thirty-seven ANC leaders. This accusation is understandable when it comes from those who are not familiar with the law that brought the ...

Local churches, under the watchful eye of the Security Forces, labelled the initiative “communist-inspired,” and no church in town would grant it support. The communications of members of Potchefstroom University (a prominent ‘Christian National’ institution) who raised ...

... Suzan ESAU, June ESSACK, Riedewaan EVANS, Gavin FAAS, Adri FABA, July Soul FADANA, Buzile FAFUDI, Rosy Matshidiso FAHRENFORT, Craig FAHRENFORT, Grant FAKATHI, Enoch Knox FAKAZI, David Bano Bekithemba FAKAZI, Harrison Thobani FAKAZI, Nkosiyapha Selnick FAKAZI, Rosemary Nonhlanhla FAKO, ...

... of scheduling would have to begin again. 27 Once a hearing was concluded, it remained for the Committee to make a decision on whether or not to grant amnesty. Stage six 28 The last administrative steps were taken and the file closed. 29 All of the above steps were managed and supervised ...

... constraints forced cancellation of the weekly summary programmes and the live coverage from 1 October 1996. However, the Commission secured a grant from the Norwegian government which enabled it to contract SABC Radio to restore these two features on a full-time basis from June 1997. An ...

Investigation Unit, the witness protector and security officers.5 The task of the security officers was to receive applications for protection, to grant temporary protection and to investigate the circumstances surrounding each application. The task of the witness protector was to evaluate all ...

... the National Party and Another v the Chairperson, Committee on Amnesty and Others17 95 On 28 November 1997, the Amnesty Committee considered and granted the amnesty applications by thirty seven members - in some instances high profile leaders of the ANC. The applications were considered in ...

12 Thus, he noted, the alternative to granting immunity could well have the effect of keeping relatives of victims ignorant of what happened, thereby perpetuating: their legitimate sense of resentment and grief and correspondingly [allowing] the culprits of such deeds to remain perhaps ...

... recent years.25 The most important difference between the South African Commission and others was that it was the first to be given the power to grant amnesty to individual perpetrators. No other state had combined this quasi-judicial power with the investigative tasks of a truth-seeking body. ...

on the state to meet the ‘need for reparations’ as enshrined in the Constitution. 9. The Act requires that, once a perpetrator has been granted amnesty, the right of the victims and/or their families to institute criminal and/or civil proceedings is extinguished .17 In 1996, the ...

Commission, the Preamble to the Act stipulates that one of the objectives of the Commission was to provide for: the taking of measures aimed at the granting of reparation to, and the rehabilitation and the restoration of the human and civil dignity of, victims of violations of human rights; ...

... commitment to give effect to the letter of the Act and the needs of the majority of our nation. 13. The most difficult aspect to deal with was the granting of amnesty. Everything related to the concept was controversial even before the Act was promulgated or the Amnesty Committee established. ...

... in particular the Amnesty Committee, accepted ‘witchcraft’ as a political motive sufficient within the context of the founding Act to grant amnesty to those applicants who had satisfied the provisions of the amnesty legislation. The political context of the time warranted this ...

... a violation, it referred the statement of the person concerned to the Reparation and Rehabilitation Committee. Moreover, if the Amnesty Committee granted amnesty in respect of any act and was of the opinion that a person was a victim of that act, it referred the identified individual to the ...

... in general access to much needed mental health services. Yet, ironically, in an attempt to persuade the Commission’s Amnesty Committee to grant amnesty, a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder was employed by security personnel. 88 The abuse of diagnosis is inextricably linked ...

... while their fellow black residents were now foreigners, temporary sojourners in white South Africa, no different from other disenfranchised migrants working outside of their home countries. They became ‘the other’, a short remove from what they were to become, ‘the ...