/ 5 August 1999

AWB INVADERS’ KILLER PARDONED

THE killer of three Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging members during a 1994 rightwing invasion into the former homeland of Bophuthatswana was granted amnesty on Thursday. Former Bophuthatswana policeman, Ontlametse Bernstein Menyatsoe, did not shoot the victims out of malice or for personal gain, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission said in a statement released in Johannesburg. The three AWB men were shot dead on March 11, 1994, at close range in full view of television cameras as they lay wounded alongside their car in Mmabatho. Fanie Uys, Alwyn Wolfaardt and Nicolaas Fourie were part of an AWB force that entered the former homeland to support former Bophutatswana president Lucas Mangope against a popular uprising.