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BOTHA, JHAge Description Amnesty was granted to Koos Botha, former Conservative Party MP, for bombings committed during 1990 and 1991. These included the Hillview Primary School in Pretoria, post offices in Verwoerdburg and Krugersdorp and COSATU House in Pretoria. ... He said there were also prima facie evidence that CCB members Staal Burger, Ferdi Barnard, Chappies Mare, Wouter Basson, Johan Niemoller, Callas Botha, Slang van Zyl, and CCB commander Joe Verster were accomplices to the murder. Despite all this evidence, the gist of it published in a ... PW Botha suffered a stroke in 1989. He was succeeded by Frederik Willem de Klerk. De Klerk was faced with this choice: more radical reform or more radical repression. He chose reform. // ‘Tomorrow will bring us to the end of a long chapter. What I’ve announced today was started by my ... This was one of only two cases that Genl Johan van der Merwe testified about this week. He is applying for amnesty. So is Adriaan Vlok. Shirley Gunn, who has brought a civil claim against Vlok, will now sue former state president PW Botha as well. ‘Torture and Killing: Stanza Bopape’ // ”Bekamp,” fight against, curb, control, ”stuit,” arrest, stem, ”uit die samelewing verwyder,” remove from society. The Seychelles, a tourist heaven. For years holiday makers have flocked to these islands strung out like jewels in the Indian Ocean. But in 1977 trouble came to paradise. Seychellois President Sir James Mancham was ousted in a coup led by Albert René. Mancham had been a friend of apartheid South ... The Ngo hearing continue in Bloemfontein this coming week when all 23 implicated policemen are expected to testify. In the latest finding of the Amnesty Committee the issue of racially inspired murders has come under the spotlight once again. In a president setting ruling the Committee has granted ... Now where do you take it from now? I ask myself, I can’t ask my colleagues. Everyone must speak for himself. I said to myself, not for the sake of this meeting but here this man, should I not have done more? This one guy he was just so bossies, he was actually amusing. I mean whenever you heard helicopters, I mean this is Voortrekkerhoogte; it’s like a military town, helicopters going all the time. This guy heard a helicopter, he would shoot under his bed and he would go into … this guy was … his ... In 1987 Samuel Thwane joined Rocky Malebane Metsing’s People’s Progressive Party that opposed the government of Lucas Mangope in Bophuthatswana. // We had the support of the people. The whole of Bophuthatswana supported us. We were confidant until after the elections. After the results were ... This one guy he was just so bossies, he was actually amusing. I mean whenever you heard helicopters, I mean this is Voortrekkerhoogte, it’s like a military town, helicopters going all the time. This guy heard a helicopter, he would shoot under his bed and he would go into … this guy was … his ... This is my land, my native land. This is my South Africa. I’m not going to allow you to interfere in our internal affairs. Keep your hands out of South Africa. We will solve our problems in our own way. I have no evidence to indicate to me that on any occasion the cabinet that approved the State Security Council decisions ever approved any unlawful act. It would in any case not have been recorded. Our purpose was also to show to the PAC and its communist allies that attacks of this kind would not be tolerated. 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. I want to help build the new SA. I was a destroyer now I want to be a builder. If the words ”neutralised,” ”eliminate” were used in reference to hot pursuit cross-border action or terrorist bases in neighbouring countries, then obviously ”neutralise,” ”eliminate” would include the killing of the terrorists. If the phrase ”neutralise eliminate,” was used in ... And to those who prefer revolution to reform I say that they will not succeed. They will not succeed. If necessary, we will use stronger measures, but they won’t succeed. These words and phrases reflected the general reaction amongst the majority of white South Africans whenever a murder or bomb explosion by terrorists was announced. It was reasonable therefore that members of the security forces would have interpreted a phrase like ”wipe out the terrorists” to ... ‘Ambush and Killing: Cradock 4’ // ‘Vernietig,’ destroy, ‘opspoor en vernietig,’ track down and destroy, ‘houvas breek,’ break their grip. |
