11.   A separate committee will continue to hear amnesty applications.

12.   Alex Boraine, deputy chairman of the Truth Commission, said the amnesty applications revealed how missing activists were sedated, shot and burned.

13.   But a new Truth and Reconciliation Commission in charge of considering such amnesty applications has not yet started functioning, creating a legal limbo.

14.   Commission spokesman Vuyani Green said most of the applicants were convicted of the charges but had not been sentenced pending the outcome of their amnesty applications.

15.   Earlier this year, the Truth Commission questioned Madikizela-Mandela in private about charges made against her in amnesty applications of former close associates.

16.   Earlier this year, the commission summoned her twice to privately answer charges made against her in the amnesty applications of others, including some of her former bodyguards.

17.   He claims in his amnesty application that the assassination was carried out on behalf of the party.

18.   He expressed disgust at the amnesty application by the former policeman, Craig Williamson, an intelligence official who infiltrated the African National Congress and targeted his onetime comrades.

19.   Herrera assured critics that the commission was proceeding deliberately in approving amnesty applications.

20.   His testimony came during an amnesty hearing of Gideon Nieuwoudt, the last of the five policemen to have his amnesty application heard.