TRUTH COMMISSION: re: General Johan van der Merwe subpoenaed to give evidence in support of amnesty apllications of Cronje, Venter, Hechter, Mentz & Van Vuuren GENERAL VAN DER MERWE TAKING OATH & READS STATEMENT

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  • Title: TRUTH COMMISSION: re: General Johan van der Merwe subpoenaed to give evidence in support of amnesty apllications of Cronje, Venter, Hechter, Mentz & Van Vuuren GENERAL VAN DER MERWE TAKING OATH & READS STATEMENT
  • Date: 21st October 1996
  • Summary: TRUTH COMMISSION: re: General Johan van der Merwe subpoenaed to give evidence in support of amnesty apllications of Cronje, Venter, Hechter, Mentz & Van Vuuren GENERAL VAN DER MERWE TAKING OATH & READS STATEMENT
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  • City: JOHANNESBURG
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: 96OCT21R03
  • Story Text:TRUTH COMMISSION HEARING AT CITY HALL JOHANNESBURG re: General Johan van der Merwe subpoenaed to give evidence regarding the Application for amnesty by Brigadier Cronje, Col Venter, Captains Hechter & Mentz, WO van Vuuren

    02.15.50 ROELOF DU PLESSIS ADVOCATE FOR APPLICANTS MAKING FURTHER LEGAL ARGUMENTS
    02.17.08 COMMISSIONERS
    02.21.26 WIDE COMMISSIONERS
    02.22.12 EVIDENCE OF WITNESS APPLICANTS ARE CALLING ...I wish to call General Johan van der Merwe as a witness...
    02.22.26 GENERAL VD MERWE TO TABLE TO GIVE EVIDENCE
    02.27.40 GENERAL VAN DER MERWE TAKING OATH
    02.27.53 GENERAL SWEARING
    02.28.36 MORE QUESTIONS & ARGUMENTS TO ADVOCATE
    02.33.22 TAKING A BREAK
    03.42.06 GENERAL VAN DER MERWE READING SUBMISSION...the role of the SAP in the conflict of the past was briefly set out in the said memorandum...
    03.42.33 ...I have now been subpoenaed to appear before this Committee in order to give evidence pertaining to these applications and I hereby declare myself willing to do so...
    03.44.27 ...withing the Republic the violent struggle was primarily waged between the security forces & elements of UMKHONTO-WE-SISWE [MK]...
    03.44.46 re: UNITED DEMOCRATIC FRONT [UDF]
    03.45.37 re: ANC National Consultative Conference held in Kabwe Zambia durinng June 1985 - 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF FREEDOM CHARTER
    03.46.44 re: ANC CONFERENCE DECIDED THAT THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN HARD & SOFT TARGETS SHOULD DISAPPEAR
    03.48.42 re: GRADUAL IMPLEMENTATION OF SO-CALLED PEOPLES WAR STRATEGY
    03.49.36 REVOLUTIONARY THEMES FOR ENSUING YEARS
    03.51.02 ...the long-term and fundamental objective of the ANC/SACP Alliance was the total destruction of the South African state...
    03.52.18 ANC'S FOUR PILLAR STARTEGY OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR
    03.58.09 STATISTICS OF POLICEMEN KILLED FROM 1973 TO DECEMBER 1992
    03.58.56 STATISTICS NECKLACE MURDERS & SETTING ALIGHT OF PERSONS
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