GRANT, D J

... interim reparations and responds to questions on the refusal of judges to appear before the TRC, on the controversial decision to collectively grant amnesty to 37 ANC leaders and on the final report of the ...

... humanity. We’ll say that over and over again. That is not pardonable in terms of international law. Even the president of this country can’t grant them that. They’ve got to go to jail and serve their time in full. That’s what we’re yearning? // Can you forgive them? // We can’t ...

Justice and we are hoping that by November, December this year we will be able to start assisting people in urgent need. // ‘Individual Reparation Grant R17 000 – R23 000 (over six years)’ // This obviously is a type of pension payment, which we hope will enable people to live a dignified ...

... Why didn’t you just pick up the phone, why did you give Mr. Kemp so much trouble to find out the addresses if you did not know whether they would grant you an interview or not? // Well, I intend to go and see them at their homes, it actually never occurred to me to phone them first. // I am ...

... political party, made a full disclosure of all the facts in this case and that the murder was in proportion to the political aims they will have to grant the two men amnesty. Some men who are alleged to have perpetrated human rights violations in the past did not ask for amnesty. Many of them ...

United Football Club. The third leg is the hearings of the Amnesty Committees. Headed by judges of the High Court these Committees have the power to grant amnesty from prosecution to applicants who had committed politically motivated crimes. And the fourth leg of the TRC is reparation to and ...

... this is stuff that’s been found in court and he’s been found guilty of, then it’s going to be very, very tough for any Amnesty Committee to grant amnesty. But having said that, it’s not my job to predetermine what an Amnesty Committee does. The fact that he’s coming to the Amnesty ...

... the Trust Feed massacre. But first we go to East London. 12 ANC members of Mdantsane this week asked the Truth Commission’s Amnesty Committee to grant them amnesty. The Bisho Supreme Court sent them to jail for burning to death four gang members in ...

These are some of the faces of South Africa’s political killers. They want the Truth Commission to grant them amnesty. But why should they be set free instead of going to jail? The answer lies in the political settlement that brought us our democracy in 1994.

He was a close friend of Eugene de Kock and of Craig Williamson and like his two friends he now wants the Truth Commission to grant him amnesty. But before that can happen, Peter Casselton will have to do a lot of explaining.

... and the application form for interim reparations have been published in the Government Gazette. Interim reparations refer to the one time grant that will be paid to victims or dependents who have suffered hardship and are in need. It will be a one off payment, which will normally be a ...

// Well, the crimes that I am alleged to have committed didn’t happen in South Africa so I don’t know how any South African Truth Commission can grant me amnesty for crimes that I allegedly committed ...

... National Party social engineering plans. They were eventually dumped in a homeland called KwaNdebele and by the early 1980s plans were advanced to grant it independence. But the homeland made little economic sense and the government decided to add the Pedi speaking area of Moutse to KwaNdebele. ...

... from the time I spoke to you two years ago to now, it has not changed. I’ve said to you on more than one occasion that we are very willing to grant amnesty or support your amnesty application on the basis that you reveal the truth. You said yesterday that you’ve been used by the security ...

... is out. It would make nonsense of all the work that we have done hitherto, to say because we are unable to deal with the applications let us now grant blanket amnesty. It will be very difficult to justify to the victims. It is already difficult now, but full disclosure at least is something. ...

... In 1985 chief minister Buthelezi requested paramilitary support from the RSA government. The RSA government decided on the 20th of December 1985 to grant him the support and tasked the SADF to render the support. This project was known as Operation Marion. // Operation Marion? Should I believe ...