| The Civil Society Coalition on the Special Dispensation on Presidential Pardons notes the statement released on 10 June 2009 by the Presidency on the special dispensation for political pardons. The statement refers to an article that appeared in Sowetan newspaper on Tuesday, June 9, 2009 which reported that but for the court interdict granted to the civil society coalition, former President Motlanthe would have granted so-called political pardons under the special dispensation.
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Written by www.sowetan.co.za
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| FOUR Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging members who went on an "unashamedly racist" rampage against black people at Kuruman in the Northern Cape in 1995 would have been freed from prison after serving only two years - if former president Kgalema Motlanthe had got his way.
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 Former Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok, together with several right wing criminals, who committed violent racist attacks in post-apartheid South Africa, have been recommended for presidential pardon.
A list of some 121 names of prisoners and convicted persons recommended for presidential pardon was compiled by the Pardons Reference Group, through a special pardons process, and handed over to President Motlanthe in March of this year.
Ryan Albutt, who has been recommended for pardon and who was one of the interveners in the pardons case, this week applied directly to the Constitutional Court for leave to appeal an interim interdict preventing the President from granting pardon to political prisoners. It was only in an annexure to his papers that an incomplete list of the 121 prisoners who have been recommended for presidential pardon was discovered.
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