Right-Wing Groups - South African Government Information
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on that regard that we should assist the IFP in any way possible. (Durban<br />
hearing, 24 April 1998.)<br />
76. Although he authorised the attack, Fourie was not involved in planning it. He<br />
did, however, warn Christie to proceed with caution and to be wary of local<br />
AWB Commander Patrick Pedlar, who was thought to be an informer for the<br />
Security Branch.<br />
77. All five applicants were convicted of the ro b b e r y, the killing of Mr Barnabas<br />
Jaggers and the attempted killing of Mr Wele Edmund Nyanguna and Mr Mzingizi<br />
Abednego Mkhondweni. Their sentencing in the matter was delayed pending the<br />
outcome of their amnesty applications. The surviving victims, Mr Nyanguna and<br />
Mr Mkhondweni, opposed their applications on the grounds that the applicants<br />
did not disclose who actually wounded them and killed Mr Jaggers.<br />
78. The Amnesty Committee found that the operation was associated with a<br />
political objective committed in the course of the conflicts of the past and that<br />
the relevant facts relating to the particular offenses had been disclosed, bearing<br />
in mind the circumstances prevailing that night. Amnesty was granted the four<br />
applicants [AC/1998/0015].<br />
The Seychelles Restaurant attack<br />
79 . In February 1994, the same IFP and AWB members conspired to carry out an<br />
attack on the Seychelles Restaurant at Port Shepstone. Mr Morton Christie, Mr<br />
Harry Jardine and Mr Andrew Howell applied for amnesty for the arson attack<br />
that destroyed the restaurant. They testified before the Amnesty Committee that<br />
the restaurant was a known meeting place for ANC supporters.<br />
80. At the hearing on the Flagstaff police station attack, the applicants revealed that<br />
they had conspired to bomb the Port Shepstone offices of the NP and the ANC<br />
on the same day as the Seychelles Restaurant attack, but had abandoned these<br />
plans because of the commotion caused in the town by the bombing of the<br />
restaurant. No casualties or injuries were reported after the bombing.<br />
81. Amnesty was granted to the applicants for the attack on the restaurant, for the<br />
conspiracy to attack the NP and ANC offices and for preparing and being in<br />
possession of explosives, on the basis that the relevant facts had been disc l o s e d<br />
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