GEORGE BIZOS
There was a mass application, about 3 000 policemen for indemnity which was not in terms of the Act.  The Act, the then acting President, Mr Pik Botha, whilst Mr P.W. Botha was out of the country or indisposed, but he purported to grant indemnities under a Section which empowered the President to grant indemnity for what one may call the non-serious violations of human rights dealing with, the Section that he purported to act on was one that dealt with people going in and out of the country without a passport, the possession, it may cover the possession of firearms ...