Amnesty laws could wipe a person's record clean of an apartheid-era crime, but it could not bring a job back, the Constitutional Court heard on Tuesday.
Advocate Tim Bruinders said this while defending the police and the safety and security ministry's decision not to rehire a policeman convicted of, and then granted amnesty for, the Motherwell bombing.
Former security policeman Wybrand du Toit was convicted along with Gideon Niewoudt and Martinus Ras on June 14, 1996, of killing three security policemen and an Askari in the Motherwell car bomb during the apartheid era, and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Their colleagues - Warrant officer Mbalala "Glen" Mgoduka, Sergeant Amos Temba Faku, Sergeant Desmond Daliwonga Mpipa and Xolile Shepard Sakati (alias Charles Jack) - were blown up in their police vehicle near Port Elizabeth in December, 1989, mainly because they knew too much about the police's involvement in the killing of anti-apartheid activist Matthew Goniwe.
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