July 21, 2000

SUMMARY OF HEARINGS FOR NEXT WEEK INCL. ANC 'MBOKODO' MEMBERS

The Amnesty Committee of the TRC is to hear the remaining Ten amnesty applications next week, by former ANC security "Mbokodo" members for Gross Human Rights Violations they committed in the ANC detention camps at the Idasa Centre, corner Prinsloo and Visagie Streets, Pretoria next week. The matters are scheduled to be heard between Monday and Tuesday July 24 -25.

The "Mbokodo", as the ANC's security apparatus was known, has been accused of torturing detainees suspected of being apartheid Security Agents who had infiltrated the organisation during its exile in Zimbabwe, Angola,Tanzania, Lesotho and Mozambique. Of the original list twenty two members who had applied, eight have been heard while four withdrew their applications during the hearings.

The remaining matters for next week are the following:

George Nkosinathi Thwala and Martin Mmapatla Ramphomane have applied for the killing of Monde "Chief" Mpatheni in Botswana in July 1981.

Keith Mokoape has applied for causing the arrest of several people and collecting information in respect of Dumisani Khoza which was then passed to the ANC's security department.

Oupa Shadrack Khumalo has applied for Human Rights Abuses that may have been committed while a Senior Officer in Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Reginald Rabotapi has applied for the assualt on Norman Phiri in Camp 32 (Quatro).

Ndima Saliwa and Kakole Motlatsehave applied for the killing of Isaack Seleke in Maseru in 1985.

Harold Khoabane has applied in relation to alleged supervision of the torture of Sipho Bongani Ngema at the Tironova Camp in Angola in November 1988.

Lulamile Lennox Magajana has applied for the assault on David Mbatha in Lusaka in 1988.

Thlomedi Ephraim Mfalapitsa has applied for the killing of Thembisile Tuku (alias Shorty) in 1980 and the torture of "Disco", "Sewela" and "Tumisang". Mfalapitsa who later voluntarily decided to join Vlakplaas while on a mission, is a now priest.

For more information, call Mbulelo Sompetha at 082 452 7870.