Ontlametse Bernstein Menyatsoe was a policeman in the Bophuthatswanahomeland in South Africa who came to international attention after killing wounded members of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) in front of a television news crew. Flag of Bophuthatswana Bophuthatswana was a former Bantustan (homeland) in the north of South Africa. ... A homeland is the concept of the territory to which one belongs; usually, the country in which a particular nationality was born. ... The flag of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, also called Afrikaner Resistance Front or AWB, is an extremist right-wing political group of South Africa. ...
On March 11, 1994, Nicolaas Johannes Fourie, Jacob Stephanus Uys and Alwyn Wolfaardt were fleeing Bophuthatswana in a Mercedes-Benz after a failed AWB invasion of the homeland. Fourie fired at stone-throwing locals and exchanged fire with members of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force until he was shot, and the car came to a stop. Journalists came to investigate the car, retreating when Defence Forces made to fire at them. As the camera crew fled, they filmed Menyatsoe shooting the unresisting survivors dead at point-blank range. 11 March is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Flag of Bophuthatswana Bophuthatswana was a former Bantustan (homeland) in the north of South Africa. ... This page is about the Mercedes-Benz brand of automobiles and trucks from the DaimlerChrysler automobile manufacturer. ...
A Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing granted Menyatsoe amnesty in August1999, on the grounds that the killings were politically motivated. Menyatsoe's amnesty has been held up by AWB members as an example of how the South African justice system is biased against them. Members have compared how AWB leader Eugène Terre'Blanche was given a six year prison sentence for assaulting John Ndzima and for the attempted murder of Paul Motshabi[1] to the amnesty granted to Menyatsoe for the triple murders. However, amnesty was not applicable for Terre'blanche's acts as no political motivation was claimed. AWB members were in fact granted amnesty for a number of politically motivated crimes in the run-up to South Africa's first multiracial elections in April 1994. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a court-like body assembled in South Africa after the end of Apartheid. ... August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Eugène Ney TerreBlanche (born January 31, 1941) is an Afrikaner and white supremacist who founded the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging. ...
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