Right-Wing Groups - South African Government Information
Right-Wing Groups - South African Government Information
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112. L o t t e r i n g ’s escape from legal custody did not involve any gross violation of<br />
human rights and the applicant continued to serve the Orde van die Dood in the<br />
period following his escape until his re c a p t u re. The Committee granted amnesty<br />
to Lottering in respect of his escape from custody [AC/1998/0025].<br />
POSSESSION OF ARMS, EXPLOSIVES AND AMMUNITION<br />
113. The Committee received thirty-one amnesty applications for the possession of<br />
arms, explosives and ammunition. The offences included possession and storage<br />
of arms caches, theft of weapons, manufacture of weapons and explosives and<br />
distribution for the purposes of furthering the activities of right-wing org a n i s a-<br />
tions and the IFP. Twenty-nine of these applications were granted.<br />
114. AWB leader Eugene Te r re’Blanche [AM7994/97] was granted amnesty for the<br />
illegal possession of arms and ammunition in Ve n t e r s b u rg in about 1982<br />
[AC/1999/221]. Terre’Blanche testified that the weapons, which included a number<br />
of AK47s and two pistols, were obtained by his organisation from a Mr Kees<br />
Mouse, whom Te r re’Blanche later established to have been an SAP agent. The<br />
intention was to store the weapons and keep them until such time as members<br />
of the AWB needed them to protect themselves. The AWB feared that the then<br />
g o v e rnment would hand power to a black government and that the same fate<br />
would befall <strong>South</strong> Africa as had befallen other <strong>African</strong> countries, where chaos<br />
had followed political change.<br />
115. It was eventually decided to bury the weapons on a farm belonging to Mr<br />
Te r re ’ B l a n c h e ’s brother until they were be needed. The weapons were later<br />
seized by the police and Te r re’Blanche was arrested and convicted.<br />
116. In another incident, AWB member Willie Hurter [AM 3613/96] was granted<br />
amnesty for being in possession of four shock grenades, a homemade shotgun<br />
and ammunition and an unlicensed Lama pistol at Bloemfontein on the 15<br />
September 1992 [AC/1998/0024].<br />
R o b b e ry at Welkom military base<br />
117. AWB members Roelof Johannes Fouche [AM 3507/96], Guillaume Cornelius<br />
Loots [AM 3508/96], Petrus Johannes Pelser [AM 3512/96], Roelof Johannes<br />
J o rdaan [AM 3861/96], Cornelius Johannes Strydom [AM 3862/96] and<br />
Coenraad Josephes Pelser [AM 4719/97] applied for amnesty for the theft of<br />
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