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HUMAN, HS

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Was injured when MK operatives detonated an explosive in a car outside the South African Air Force (SAAF) headquarters in Church Street, Pretoria, on 20 May 1983. Twenty one people were killed and two hundred and seventeen injured. The overall commander of MK’s Special Operations Unit and two MK operatives were granted amnesty (AC/2001/003 and AC/2001/023). See Church Street Bombing, Bombing, Pretoria.

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... the APLA operation. In an interview with Special Report Ntsebeza suggests he was framed at the time of the incident because of his activities as a human rights lawyer. The following segment reports on the Legal Sector hearings held in Johannesburg (27 - 29 October) that looked at the role the ...
... on the August 1985 Duncan Village massacre - when a wave of violence and clashes with security forces hit the region, following the funeral of human rights lawyer Victoria Mxenge. Also included is a report on the complicity of SADF medics in human rights abuses. From Klerksdorp we hear ...
... Tshikalanga, appeared in front of the TRC with Coetzee (5 to 7 November 1996). Cases covered in this week?s hearings include the assassinations of human rights lawyer Griffiths Mxenge and youth activist Sizwe Kondile, and the abduction of Joe Pillay, MK commander Ivan Pillay?s brother. The ...
... Tokoza, The Tambo Boys: Children and War. The second segment focuses on the health sector hearing held in Cape Town (17 - 18 June) that examined human rights violations committed by health practitioners and includes a report on district surgeons? complicity in Steve Biko?s death. We are also ...
... targets, thereby contravening international law. Apartheid?s last commissioner of police challenged the NP?s stance that it had never authorised human rights violations carried out by the SAP and the security police boss responsible for Vlakplaas confirmed that the NP leadership was aware of ...
The last episode of the series provides an overview of the proceeds of four TRC components, the Human Rights Violations Committee, the Amnesty Committee, special hearings (set up to explore the history and context of apartheid) and the Reparations and Rehabilitation Committee. The second segment ...
... of Newcastle community leader, Hlogonathi Sibankulu. The episode also profiles Patrick Dlongwane, who was both a perpetrator and victim of human rights violations, and finally, the killing in Durban of ANC lawyer Griffiths Mxenge by Vlakplaas operatives, including interviews with ...
... coverage of a debate amongst medical professionals on whether there should be a separate Truth Commission for the health sector that would, address human rights abuses committed by health practitioners. The final segment focuses on five former CCB operatives from the SADF, imprisoned in Zimbabwe ...
... In a segment on capital punishment, a former death row prisoner and prison warder spoke about their experiences and in her submission to the TRC, human rights lawyer Paula McBride described conditions in Pretoria Maximum Security Prison highlighting the racist manner in which the death penalty ...
the TRC has been successful in unearthing the truth - in a discussion with journalist, author and former newspaper editor Donald Woods, director of human resources at Spoornet Maki Mandela, IFP member of parliament Abraham Mzizi and UCT academic and political commentator Herman Giliomee. The ...
left 19 people dead; testimony from Teddy Williams, a former MK soldier detained in the ANC?s Quatro detention camp in Angola and other incidents of human rights abuses within the ANC. From George we hear Benedict Maranene?s testimony about the 1985 necklacing of his father and an interview with ...
... The Durban hearings cover the August 1985 Umlazi cinema massacre - when armed IFP soldiers attacked mourners during a memorial service for human rights lawyer Victoria Mxenge ? and the January 1987 KwaMakhutha massacre - implicating the SADF and IFP Caprivi trainees. A segment on the ...
... on the Amnesty Committee hearings of Chris Hani?s killers, Janusz Walus and Clive Derby-Lewis (held in Pretoria). Derby-Lewis is cross examined by human rights lawyer George Bizos, questioning him on previously lying to the court and on whether the Conservative Party sanctioned the ...
4 to 7 February) focuses on hostel violence on the East Rand. Included in this segment is an interview with former director of the NGO monitors, the Human Rights Commission and manager of the TRC's Gauteng office, Patrick Kelly, who gives some background to the migrant labour and hostel system. ...
in the 1980s; the torture and murder of Jacob Maake, Andrew Makope and Harold Sefolo by the South African Police's Vlakplaas operatives; and lastly, human rights violations committed by the ANC, including the Church Street (Pretoria) and Amanzimtoti bombings and incidents of abuse and ...
... (14 to 16 October 1996) from where we hear a public confession from members of the Stellenbosch Dutch Reformed Church on their role in past human rights abuses and testimony from the relatives of military conscript, Wallace McGregor, who speak about their loss. The episode includes a ...
... support to MK soldiers. Deputy Chairperson of the TRC, Dr Alex Boraine, discusses the shift in focus of the TRC ? from victims to perpetrators of human rights abuses ? and the amnesty process. The episode ends with an interview with cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro aka ?Zapiro? and his work on the ...
... where their remains were disposed of by the police. The following segment focuses on the history of pass laws, described as the greatest single human rights violation of our past. ...
Special Report's inaugural episode covers the very first hearings of the TRC's Human Rights Violation (HRV) Committee, held in East London between April the 15th and 19th.. Segments include testimonies by widows of the Pebco Three and Cradock Four (activists who were abducted and murdered by ...
Human rights violations in the former Venda.
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