DR PRETORIUS
This is the case Mr Chairman, and if Captain van Jaarsveld should come with his own 
amnesty application at a later time, he will indeed give testimony with regard to his peculiar knowledge 
and should he have given such instructions, he will make such application.
	Any applicant can say that they received instructions from say, General van der Merwe or 
whomever else, but the general knowledge, the broad policy decisions which might be of relevance here, 
tells us nothing about the peculiar knowledge relevant in the case of every application.	This crucial 
difference must be kept in mind at all times.  
	The other difficulty against which, with respect, you must guard at all times, is that this process 
must not 
be abused to circumvent any possible future prosecution.
That this process will be used with regard to Joe Mamasela or a Willie Nortje to discredit such persons, so 
that in the case that amnesty is not granted, that the possibility of prosecution will be reduced because the 
main State witnesses PRETORIA HEARING	AMNESTY/