HASSAN MALL
Mr du Plessis, the memorandum which has been 
handed to me, is addressed to the Amnesty Committee and it 
bears the date 12th of March 1997.  In it Mr Botha records 
the following, or rather what Mr Botha said was recorded as 
follows  That he objects most strongly to the 
unsubstantiated comments made by Mr Nortje yesterday before 
the CommittEe which apparently were not challenged by any 
members of the Committee.
		"According to Press reports today, Mr Cronje 
alleged that there was no doubt that I knew of a 
security force plot to eliminate one of the master 
minds of the 1983 Church Street bomb blasts in 
Pretoria.  According to the Press reports, Mr 
Cronje alleged that I publicly claimed that a 
certain MacKenzie was an ANC member and that he 
had blown up his own vehicle.  Mr Cronje then 
stated that there was no doubt in his mind that I 
knew what the true situation was.  Mr Cronje did 
not indicate any source for this allegation.      
The facts are that the Botswana  Government 
complained to the South African Government.  The 
Department of Foreign Affairs, as is the normal 
practice, sent the Botswana Government's comment 
to the South African Security Forces.  The South 
African Police responded that they had 
incontrovertible evidence that MacKenzie was being 
used by the ANC to transport weapons into South 
Africa from Botswana.  The SAP also said that they 
had evidence that MacKenzie was in regular contact 
with certain members of the ANC in Zambia and 
CAPE TOWN HEARING	AMNESTY/