OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 6.00PM.
THE Truth and Reconciliation amnesty committee has granted amnesty to Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) member Nicolaas Willem de Jongh for the bombing of two houses shortly before the 1994 elections.
De Jongh, the AWB commander for the Queenstown, Eastern Cape, area and two other AWB members bombed the houses of Wiseman Zitembile Sana in Queenstown and Johnson Dumile Sateni in Hofmeyer on August 13 and 14, 1993. Although both houses were damaged, nobody was hurt.
De Jongh was later convicted on two counts of bombing and for the illegal possession of explosives. Sentencing was postponed pending the outcome of his amnesty application.
In a statement on Monday the TRC amnesty committee said: “It was clear the bombings were carried out in pursuit of AWB policies with a clear political objective associated with the conflicts of the past.”