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BONGANI, (first name not given)Age Description Summing up at the end of two days of submissions. Commissioner Bongani Finca requested that the officers in charge of those police and soldiers come to the TRC with an explanation of their actions during that terrible August in 1985. ... now as the Truth Commission hears the stories of ordinary people that the full scale of medical complicity becomes clear. Abuse of human rights was not confined to those in uniform. Many doctors and health workers were part of the system of state abuse. Some, simply because they kept quiet. ... Bongani Finca describes himself as a pastor, a preacher and an activist for justice. Since he was a young boy growing up in a small, rural village near Pietermaritzburg he felt a calling to the church. ... we’d all meet when playing soccer between different teams, eventually to combine forces, still living at Phenduka. It then turned out that we did not trust each other, so we then tried to fundraise. Then there was one of our friends, his name is Bongani, we call him Maponya The Gents, whose ... Ndethini Thyido and Zwelitsha Mkuhlwa were members of a self defence unit in Khayelitsha in Cape Town when they were found guilty of the attempted murder of Bongani Mpisane, co member of the same self defence unit, in 1992. They accused him of stealing money and being an informer. In the past few months we’ve tried to give you a personal glimpse into the lives of some of the Truth Commission’s 17 commissioners. Today we meet Bongani Finca at his home in East London. ... if it is police who were involved and who were there. // At that time Ruben got a chance to go to the funeral and I told him to eat because he did not eat that day. I went to the room to sleep, but I decided to make a tea first. Before I pour this tea three boys came in and they told me Ruben ... |
