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200. The applicant appeared before the Committee again in December 2000 and
adduced the evidence of the leader of the Orde Boerevolk, Mr Pieter Rudolph.
Rudolph said that he would not have authorised the attack if he had been asked
to do so and that, in any event, he would have had no way of communicating
with his supporters as he had been in detention at the time.
201. The Committee subsequently refused amnesty to Botha on the same basis as
b e f o re, namely that he had had no authority from his political organisation to
launch an attack on innocent and unarmed civilians.
The killing of George Mkomane
202. AWB member, Mr Hendrik Johannes Slippers [AM 1002/96] applied for amnesty
for the abduction and killing of Mr George Mkomane in Belfast in the Eastern
Transvaal on 13 February 1991. For these offences, Mr Slippers was sentenced
to two years and twelve years.
203. Mr Slippers testified before the Amnesty Committee that, at an AWB meeting
held in November 1990, his Commander AWB Commandant Volshenk had
instructed members to implement a policy of ‘white-by-night’. This amounted to
the re-implementation of the curfew laws of the apartheid era, which pro h i b i t e d
blacks from being in so-called ‘white areas’ without a permit after 21h00.
Blacks present in white townships after 21h00 should be told to leave and, if
they refused, should be removed by force if necessary. The Committee re c e i v e d
a ffidavits from Brigadier Kloppers and John Wayne Rautenbach confirming the
policy and the instructions to carry it out.
204. Mr Slippers testified that the instruction he re c e i v e d :
… fitted in with my political objectives, namely the protection of whites, the
i n t e rests of whites and I believed that the action would serve to intimidate people
of other colours or other races in the country and also put a stop to blacks taking
over in this country. I believed that these kind of actions would put a stop to the
political changes in the country, it would either stop it or slow them down.
(Nelspruit hearing, 7 May 1997.)
205. He testified that, on the night in question, he and four other AWB members in
Belfast were driving around trying to enforce the ‘white-by-night’ policy in the
town. Although they had been drinking before they went on patrol, he testified
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