The Case of Chris Hani and the Standard of Amnesty

- produced by Andrei Greenawalt & Maria Burnett

Websites Used in the SMIL

 Washington Post article reporting on the murder of Hani.

http://africanhistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp%2Dsrv/inatl/longterm/s%5Fafrica/stories/hani041193.htm

Washington Post article about Janus Walus.

http://www-tech.mit.edu/V113/N20/south-africa.20w.html

Links provided to the full text of ‘Volk’ Faith and Fatherland: The Security Threat Posed by the White Right by Martin Schönteich and Henri Boshoff.

http://www.iss.co.za/Pubs/Monographs/No81/Content.html

Short autobiography of Chris Hani written in 1991.

http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/people/hani_c.html

The Manifesto of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the ANC.

http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/manifesto-mk.html

Information about Richard Turner

http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/people/turner-r.htm

An article about the murder of Matthew Goniwe.

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1994/150/150p15.htm

The Amnesty Committee’s decision on the killings of the Craddock Four.

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/decisions/1999/ac990350.htm

Information about Ruth First

http://www.sacp.org.za/biographies/rfirst.html

Information about Dulcie September and the ANC French Mission.

http://www.ufh.ac.za/collections/Library/ANC_Materials/FrenchM_History.htm

Nelson Mandela’s address at the funeral of Chris Hani

http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/speeches/1993/sp930419.html

Transcripts of the Hani amnesty hearings divided by date.
August 11—21, 1997

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/pta/derby01.htm

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/pta/derby03.htm

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/pta/derby04.htm

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/pta/derby05.htm

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/pta/derby06.htm

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/pta/derby07.htm

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/pta/derby08.htm

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/pta/derby09.htm

November 24— December 5, 1997

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/pta/2derby1.htm

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/pta/2derby2.htm

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/pta/2derby3.htm

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/pta/2derby4.htm

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/pta/2derby5.htm

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/pta/2derby6.htm

March 16-19, 1998

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/bok/bok2_3hani1.htm

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/bok/bok2_3hani2.htm

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/bok/bok2_3hani3.htm

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/bok/bok2_3hani4.htm

The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act. Section 20 lays out the standards for granting amnesty.

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/legal/act9534.htm

Article by Gaye Derby-Lewis criticizing the amnesty committee as inconsistent and biased in its decisions.

http://www.wandea.org.pl/chris-hani.html

The ANC’s response to Gaye Derby-Lewis’ statements.

http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/pr/1993/pr1018b.html

Article reporting on Gaye Derby-Lewis’ rejection of statements made the police about the Hani murder.

http://www.dispatch.co.za/1997/12/03/page5trc.htm

Article describing Gaye Derby-Lewis’s vows to challenge the amnesty decision.

http://www.sacp.org.za/pr/press/1999/nw0408.html

Information about George Bizos from the Legal Resources Centre

http://www.sacp.org.za/pr/press/1999/nw0408.html

Nelson’s Mandela statement at the Rivonia Trial.

http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/rivonia.html

The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act. Section 20 lays out the standards for granting amnesty.

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/legal/act9534.htm

Other truth commissions:

Argentina : http://www.derechos.org/koaga/iii/1/cuya.html#arg

Uganda : http://www.derechos.org/koaga/iii/1/cuya.html#arg

Chile : http://www.derechos.org/koaga/iii/1/cuya.html#chil

El Salvador : http://www.derechos.org/koaga/iii/1/cuya.html#chil

Guatemala : http://www.derechos.org/koaga/iii/1/cuya.html#chil

East Timor : http://www.easttimor-reconciliation.org/

Sierra Leone : http://www.usip.org/library/tc/doc/charters/tc_sierra_leone_02102000.html

South Korea : http://truthfinder.go.kr/eng/index.htm

The April 7, 1999, decision of the Amnesty Committee denying Walus and Derby-Lewis asylum.

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/decisions/1999/990307_walusderbylewis.html

Article explaining how the Hani decision has caused some to question the impartiality of the Amnesty Committee.

http://www.hsf.org.za/focus21/focus21amnesty.html

Additional Websites

The Chapter of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Report which discusses right wing groups and the amnesty process. Pages 469-482 of the Report discusses the Hani case. (pages 27-40 of the PDF).

http://www.gov.za/reports/2003/trc/3_6.pdf

Nelson Mandela’s address to the nation the day Chris Hani was murdered.

http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/1993/sp930410.html

Scroll down to the second story for an interview with George Bizos and Jeremy Cronin, the deputy general secretary of the SACP, about the Hani hearings.

http://archive.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn970822.html

The United States Institute for Peace guide to truth commissions around the world.

http://www.usip.org/library/truth.html

Article reporting on charges against Gaye Derby-Lewis for illegally possessing firearms.

http://iafrica.com/news/sa/204686.htm

Article reporting on Gaye Derby-Lewis’ acquittal on charges of firearm possession.

http://iafrica.com/news/sa/246020.htm

Article describing Bizos’s call to reopen the hearings on the Craddock Four.

http://www.dispatch.co.za/1999/05/29/southafrica/BIZOS.HTM