MR VAN DER WESTHUIZEN
My motivation for executing the order of Col Botha by abducting Khubeka and after that, being present during the interrogation, as well as my silence regarding the death of Khubeka, was in order to prevent an embarrassment for the police, the government and the National Party.  The ANC used all events which indicated offences committed by the Security Forces, and created propaganda out of it, in order to place the government in the worst possible light.  My actions were aimed at the protection and maintenance of the former government and constitutional dispensation and were performed during the struggle of the past against a supporter of a liberation movement, in order to combat the revolutionary onslaught.  My involvement in the abduction of Khubeka was executed in the execution of my official duties, under the order of a superior officer whose orders I was obliged to execute.  As such I believed bona fide that what I did, fell within my express or implied authorisation.   I request humbly that amnesty be granted to me for my acts and omissions in this regard.