JOHANNESBURG - The former South African police minister, Mr Adriaan Vlok, has applied to the Truth Commission for an amnesty, his lawyer said yesterday, becoming the first member of an apartheid era cabinet ready to admit to abuses.
Mr Vlok headed the police at the height of emergency rule in the 1980s when hundreds of black activists were killed by police and about 30,000 people were detained without charge amid countless allegations of torture in prisons.
