The TRC and the Volkstaat

AC/99/0344

TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION

AMNESTY COMMITTEE

APPLICATION IN TERMS OF SECTION 18 OF THE PROMOTION OF NATIONAL UNITY AND 
RECONCILIATION ACT, NO. 34 OF 1995

JOHANNES PETRUS OLIVIER APPLICANT

(AM6483/97)

DECISION

The applicant was a member of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging in April 1994. 
He was then also employed in the South African Police Services.

Upon instructions of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, he packed up his 
belongings in Durban, sold his house and went to Ventersdorp in the belief of 
preparing for war from which the establishment of a Boere Volkstaat would flow.

In pursuance of this venture, the applicant, with another attempted to 
discharge a bomb in the district of Benoni and Boksburg. However, he was 
arrested before the bomb could be discharged and after he deliberately rode 
through a formal roadblock.

His actions were committed with a political motive. His application satisfies 
the requirements of the Act.

Consequently amnesty is GRANTED for the following acts:-

(i) Unlawful possession of explosives as envisaged in Section 28 read with 
sections 1 and 27 of Act 26 of 1956;

(ii) Failing to adhere to an instruction to stop at a roadblock;

(iii) Conspiracy to contravene Section 27(i) of Act 26 of 1956.

Dated at Cape Town this 10th day of December 1999.

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