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JAMES, (other details not given)Age Description APLA as a unit, that is APLA high command, is shouldering responsibility of all the activities that took place since its inception in 1961 till the cut-off date that is May 1994. May I ask the applicant to turn around and face me? This is the first opportunity that we’ve had to look at each other in the eye and talk. I want to ask Mr. Makoma, who actually entered the church. My wife was sitting right at the door where you came in, she was wearing a long blue coat. Can you ... trying to gun down each and every person. It was absolute horror. // Despite the unbelievably vicious nature of the attack the survivors preached forgiveness. // From my level as a human being, my personal level, I feel I have forgiven, and when I say I forgiven I bear no grudges against them. ... ... pain has never stopped. // I want the government to help me, because it was the government’s agents who killed my son in the first place, it was not thugs, but government employees. Even the hand grenades that were used belonged to the government. // The way they died is very painful. It takes ... ‘The Violators’ // Dear fellow South Africans, this is a cry from the heart. I appeal to all of you right across the political spectrum, please take this golden opportunity to apply for amnesty. Please come forward. Because this is an opportunity to put the past behind you, to help in the ... ... training, taking most of them from the school benches to the border trenches in just a few months. But for many of these boys the real enemy was not the one they searched for in the bush or shot at from the air. That enemy they left behind dead or alive as is the nature of war. There was ... ... training, taking most of them from the school benches to the border trenches in just a few months. But for many of these boys the real enemy was not the one they searched for in the bush or shot at from the air. That enemy they left behind dead or alive as is the nature of war. There was ... ... on two cases where black people were the perpetrators of terror and white people the victims. The 1993 slaughter of Christian worshippers at the St James Church and the killing of American student Amy Biehl. We let the killers and the survivors and family of the victims speak on tonight’s ... ... white areas and farms as well as the army and police. In 1993 in particular the country was rocked by the seemingly senseless attacks on the St. James Church and the Helderberg pub as well as the Highgate Hotel in the Eastern Cape. In Bloemfontein in 1993 on the same day as the St. James ... ... the government could hear the cries of the children of Azania. If your ears couldn’t listen, APLA decided to take guns to open the ears that were not prepared to listen. // Why was it necessary to attack a church? // As I’ve said before, I didn’t know that we were going to attack a church. ... ... students demanding their rights, the problem of funds, school fees, those years, ’85, ’84, demand of the release of Mandela, I mean not a violent demonstration, just peaceful demonstrations that’s how you see how the police they come and answer with a bullet. // So even you as ... I’m not prepared to discuss St. James Church as we made it clear that we can’t because some of our chaps right now are languishing behind bars and they’re accused of that incident. It would not be fair on my part to say no or yes as far as St. James Church is concerned. This was a clear case; racism is not an acceptable political motive, but what of the seven young applicants this week? Lawyer Norman Arendse gives his impression. // It’s a matter of locating what they did in the political context at the time. And clearly the political context at the time was ... ... process. This past week we struggled a bit with both legs of the process. Extracting the truth was slow and rather painful and the role players did not exactly bubble with the spirit of reconciliation, but it was an important and interesting week because the spotlight fell on all the men who ... ... to see at this week’s amnesty hearing for the St. James massacre. He has applied for amnesty for the massacre, but no one knew why he did not arrive for the hearing. Even the PAC could not explain where he was. His testimony was crucial as he has taken public responsibility for the ... ... as the director of operations, of everything that happened when I was the commander including attacks on Lady Grey police station, attacks on St James Church and attacks on different farms across the country. I’m going to apply for amnesty for the Queenstown steak incident, steak bar, that ... ... tortured him and cut off his hands. They shot him and blow him up. // For Shokie Maake, sister of James Maake, knowing her brother’s killer is not enough. She wants to meet Mamasela face to face. // We’d like the Commission to help us of showing us Mamasela to come here and explain to us ... We are proud of what we did. We have no regret, it is unfortunate that people had to die, but it is not something that we are ashamed of that we did go to war. War by its very nature is evil and if there was another method of avoiding it we would have avoided it. So, we are not going to have ... Both men seemed eager to help each other with what they wanted. They were planning to attend a service in St James Church together and to visit Khaya Makoma in prison. Charl van Wyk also pledged to help the PAC commander in his crusade to meet with other survivors of PAC attacks. The APLA submission started on a very reconciliatory note with an address by the recently elected PAC leader, Dr Stanley Mogoba. // I have supported the Truth and Reconciliation Commission at all times, even when personal hurt and humiliation was experienced, because I am convinced that this ... |
