MRS KLUKAS
This is my daughter
	"My name is Joanne May Stapes, nee Klukas, daughter of the late Clive Winston Klukas who was tragically killed at the Ellis Park bomb blast.  I am opposed to the amnesty application by those involved in the Ellis Park blast.  In my mind it was a violent act on a civilian target.  The ANC has stated that it was not their policy to target civilian targets.  
	Ellis Park was and still is a sports stadium.  Civilians were there to enjoy sport and the bomb was planted to indiscriminately kill as many people as possible.  I'm also opposed to any person who willingly and knowingly tried to kill as many civilians as possible in this callous act from holding any kind of office within the current Government.  This is a criminal act which cost the lives of innocent civilians for which there is no forgiveness.  I cannot have faith in people in the Government who were party to this kind of terrorism.  
	It is impossible to try and explain the distress, loneliness and actual heartbreak this event had on each member of our family and difficult to communicate what our family has gone through since that awful day.  One violent senseless act took away the most considerate, loving, fun loving, important person I have had the pleasure to share my life with.  I am heartbroken for my dad, that he had to die in a bomb blast as I know how much he enjoyed life and would have loved to see his family mature into adults.  There are so many people out there that were touched by his kindness and his friendship that it's a shame that he could not have lived longer to explain to those responsible for the bomb blast at Ellis Park what sort of a man Clive Klukas was, would be pointless and impossible as it does little change the obvious way in sort of that the civilians had to die, to convey their message to the National Party.  My belief is God will be the final judge, therefore it is impossible for me to appear before the applicants and forgive them.  I believe we have been through enough trauma and it would do little to change what's happened.
	Lastly I would categorically like to state that my father was not in any way involved in politics, treated all around him with respect.  I feel he was not treated with the same respect and South Africa lost a person who was in his own way contributing to be a better place.  He was a hard working liberal man who played no part in the previous Government and no belief in the Apartheid system.  The system he opposed bitterly therefore highlights how futile the struggle was in South Africa."