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people's war

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a popular national rebellion of both trained soldiers and ordinary civilians during the mid- to late 80s. The strategy, promoted by the ANC, involved integrating armed MK combatants with mass organisations inside South African townships, and rendering the townships ungovernable through attacks on the security forces and other representatives of the state.

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... made about the involvement of Mrs. Mandela and members of the football club. These have been in statements made by victims who have come forward to complain about human rights violations. Mrs. Mandela herself at all times while she was subpoenaed called for a public inquiry and the ...
From Monday I have been listening with my open ears trying to tolerate what was happening, but from today nothing has been done. That is injustice, today, there is no justice in that. When other people ask questions there are harsh answers to them but when she speaks nobody’s putting pressure on ...
Right, let’s get stuck into that. Dr Mandela, we talked about perceptions now, but Mr. Mzizi is bringing up something else – the whole question of reopening of old wounds. He just said the healing had begun but now the Truth Commission has scratched open the wounds. Do you agree with that ...
Are you going to apologise to the people who died in jail, who died in Lesotho, who died in … // No, I’m praying for them.
Dr. Asvat said: Well, what can I do? Being visited by big people like this. He made it a joke. We laughed. She said. Doctor, I have a problem. This boy has been sodomised by Paul Verryn. The doctor said. Oh really? Come inside. So the doctor he only checked my blood.
And you’ll find that with people knowing that it is possible to burn a person. I mean, that kind of coverage developed psychologically in the minds of other people whereby people felt now that it is a good strategy, it’s a more popular strategy to burn your enemy and in these rural areas most ...
... to pick up Godolozi, we knew. He started with Godolozi first, and they went for Champion Golela. So, we knew all that; and as they were driving towards the airport we had a running commenter about their movement and as they drove into the entrance of the airport itself, it was as if we’re ...
Anti-apartheid activist and ANC lawyer Griffiths Mxenge. On the 19th of November 1991, his body was found on this sports field in Umlazi near Durban. He had 45 stab wounds, his throat was slit and his ear severed. The murder of Griffiths Mxenge became one of the most notorious political ...
... Rooigrond then on that day I was put in isolation, taken to a cell where I stayed alone for a period of almost two months. Whilst in detention the warders in jail were telling us, all of us, not me alone that ‘you people are going to be hanged; you are facing a very serious crime of ...
It was a group of people who were violating the community. It was a group of hooligans who were attacking people and they got my husband and stabbed him to death. When we got there we got the Three Million Gang. I saw him; he had been attacked by the Three Million Gang. When I tried to tell him the ...
be compiled now at the exclusion of evidences of other parties. Now we have a situation where we are seated with all the victims that are looking forward to be given reparation at the end of the day, which they are going to miss as far as I’m concerned in the sense that the Tokoza massacre, ...
I thought I knew what happened in this country. I was involved, so when I was appointed I didn’t expect surprises. But I was shocked again and again and again as I sit at hearings to realize how little I knew. I was deeply touched by people who refused to be crushed. Deeply moving moments, which ...
But the message that was given many people was you’re a coward or there’s something wrong with you, and again there was the attitude of almost a joke, bossies was a sort of a joke. People joked about whether they were or weren’t or whether other people were or weren’t, without really ...
The request that I want to make is that in all that I have done I did it because I was tempted by a very clever person who was older than me. And after such a long time that the Asvat family has been troubled, wanting to know as to the circumstances surrounding their relative, their father or their ...
The Truth Commission can, according to the Act of Parliament that governs them, investigate the gross human rights violations perpetrated by Vlakplaas, but there are other apartheid practices that did even more damage to generations of our people that cannot be narrowly defined as individual human ...
Badenhorst said Webster’s killing came up again, often. // I began to take it seriously when he told me in about 1995 that Calla Botha was the driver of the car. He said Calla was so shocked that he had to threaten him with a gun to get him to drive away. He told me Webster was an ANC activist ...
The conflict of the past is not only about white oppressors. When we talk of reconciliation there are so many shades of the past that now have become levels for reconciliation. What about black informers, black policemen, black councillors, black collaborators? What about the ongoing strife between ...
By the end of the next day scores of people were wounded and dead. Many wounded were treated at home for fear of being arrested at hospitals. But these were the lucky ones. Some say, up to 17 people lost their lives. // I will say for people that were hurt, I will call it something like 300 to ...
June 17, 1992. About 300 residents at the Kwamadala Hostel and members of the security forces turned Boipatong into a place of terror. 49 people died that night. News of the massacre reverberated throughout South Africa and the world. This week, some of the survivors told the Truth Commission their ...
And then obviously the question around medical treatment, people who still have bullet wounds, people who still suffer at a physical level should be given medical treatment and those people also suffering from psychological continuing problems, they should also be given help.
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