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... member of a KwaMathu MK unit, ?The Swimmers,? blown up by security policemen at Phoenix Railway Station. Naye Ngema, suspected of betraying his comrades, was recently cleared when policeman Andy Taylor revealed details of the incident in his amnesty application. The following segment offers a ...

The following segment reports on the HRV Committee hearings held in Parys (28 to 30 April) focusing on methods of torture used by the police and the comrades during the 1980s and 1990s. Also included are segments on the history of Bantu Education and a call from education stakeholders for a ...

... in the Huhudi township near Vryburg in the former 'independent' homeland of Bophuthatswana. Segments include the killing of Frieda Mabalane by comrades, incidents of Huhudi youth and civic organisation members tortured by police, an interview with a group of former vigilantes, the February ...

... the HRV Committee. The programme explores perceptions of the Truth Commission process, including interviews with Truth Commissioners and former comrades of Siphiwo Mtimkulu. We are introduced to the 22 former and serving security policemen who want to apply for amnesty for acts committed in ...

In 1985 the tiny township of Kwesi in Hanover erupted into a war between the black local authority and the comrades. The councillors were branded traitors and the comrades wanted them out of the township. Towards the end of the year tension in the township had reached boiling point and the ...

1986 Conflict between the Witdoeke and Comrades in Crossroads, Western Cape

Human rights violations, Bophuthatswana: The murder of Frieda Mabalane by comrades, the Bop coup, the fall of Mangope and the AWB debacle.

They took ice cubes and forced them into my anus. One policeman ordered them to bring the electrocution equipment. While these ice cubes were in my anus I was electrocuted. // This little bottle of milk was going to be poured onto my forehead. I didn’t know what was happening. They were aiming ...

But what about white fears and suspicions towards the Truth and Reconciliation Commission? // They must understand that this is part of a process of nation building, or bringing two worlds that have been apart together. The white world and the black world, they must come together into one rainbow ...

‘Comrades, die dag is ‘n ander dag vir ons. Dit is ‘n seer dag vir ons wat onse mense in die verlede swaar getref het … wat sal vandag voor die hof verskyn. So comrades, ek sal laaik laat ons nie almal onder die bome staan nie. Ons moet saam wys dat ons het pyn van onse comrades wat in die ...

The first wave of horror came in May 1986. Over three days the ‘fathers,’ or witdoeke systematically burned three satellite squatter camps around Crossroads to the ground. The security forces then stepped in. They encircled the area with barbed wire to prevent the 30 000 left homeless by the ...

... eat and do everything under those conditions. That means for three months they kept me there. // How did such a culture develop in the ANC where comrades were torturing comrades? // They knew that the police were looking for us; they were doing this on their own, maybe because they had too ...

... of also being involved in human rights violations. // My hands are not dripping with the blood of the African children. I’ve never compromised my comrades. I’ve never even compromised her. I went to prison for her as my leader. // She in effect blames you for their assault and Stompie’s ...

... him, KwaMashu residents had seen him in the neighbourhood and they drew the wrong conclusions. // Some of them were sure that I sell out those comrades. // Naye Ngema says only five people in all of Africa knew who The Swimmers were. How did Security Branch Col Andy Taylor find out? Taylor ...

William Nkumbi insists that they would have managed to run away from the comrades had it not been for that first stone that tripped his brother, a stone he insists was thrown by Samson Booysen. // I can’t say who killed him because that day it was the comrades who were there in his house till ...

‘Fighters then, forgotten now: Laaitie comrades of the Cape Flats, Report by Gail Reagon.’ // In Cape Town last week young adults gathered to speak about human rights violations against them as teenagers. Three were partially blinded, victims of random police shootings. This story is about the ...

Phinias Ndlovu was fifteen years old when he joined the struggle. He and his fellow comrades, consumed by the call to create a people’s war organized protest marches, stay-aways, school boycotts. But part of their fight for freedom meant turning on those they saw as collaborating with the system ...

... me, because he felt I was his political opponent and he actually said at a police station, at the KwaThabela police station that he would allow the comrades, he would let the comrades loose and I might not live on the next ten days. Within ten days they would kill me. Reconciliation is possible, ...

... 26 November 1997’ // Madikizela-Mandela appeared relaxed and confident when she arrived at the hearing on Wednesday morning. She greeted old comrades warmly and seemed determined to show the world that there were no hard feelings between herself and Truth Commission Chairperson Desmond ...

... the vehicle. We dragged him out of the vehicle, we wrestled with him a bit and in the wrestling I remember very well that he screamed and said. No Comrades! No Comrades! I’m one of you! I’m one of you! Bellingham fired several shots, I cannot remember how many. To me it sounded as though he ...