/ 25 April 2001

PAC CALLS FOR AMNESTY

THE Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) on Wednesday called on President Thabo Mbeki to declare amnesty for all former freedom fighters on Freedom Day. PAC deputy president Motsoko Pheko said a number of such prisoners were languishing in the prisons of the “new South Africa”. He accused the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of being biased in granting amnesty. “Unless all former freedom fighters are granted presidential amnesty, April 27 in this country will remain ‘Free-Doom’ not Freedom Day,” Pheko said.