AC/98/0083

 

 

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.

CARL MATHINUS KRIEL APPLICANT

(AM 6699/97)

DECISION

The Committee after considering the application, the relevant documentation and the evidence, is satisfied that :

a) the application complies with the requirements of Act 34 of 1995;

b) the acts, omission or offences to which the application relates are acts associated with a political objective committed in the course of the conflicts of the past;

c) that the relevant facts relating to the particular offences have been disclosed;

d) that the offence does not constitute a gross violation of human rights.

2

Amnesty is GRANTED in respect of the following offences:

1. conspiring to cause an explosion at the Hill View School in Pretoria on the 14th of June 1991;

2. contravention of Sections 2, 28, 29, 32, 36 and 39 of the Arms and Ammunition Act 75 of 1969;

3. contravention of Sections 3, 4, 5, 9 and 27 of the explosives Act 26 of 1956;

4. malicious damage of the property known as the Hill View School on the 14th of June 1991.

SIGNED ON THE 2ND DAY OF NOVEMBER 1998.