AC/98/0074

 

 

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.

COLIN JAMES BALDERSON APPLICANT

(AM 8009/97)

DECISION

The amnesty Committee having considered the nature of the offence and the application of Colin James Balderson is satisfied:

1. that the application falls within the ambit of section 19 (3) (b) of Act 34 of 1995 and,

2. that the requirements set out in section 20 of the said Act have been complied with.

The applicant is therefore GRANTED amnesty in respect of his attending an unlawful gathering during 1972 at Grahamstown, which gathering constituted a demonstration in contravention of a

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municipal by-law and for which he pad an admission of guilt fine in the amount of R30.00.

 

DATED AT CAPE TOWN THIS 27 DAY OF OCTOBER 1998