N’WA-MUKANSI, (first names not given)

442 In an amnesty application, a member of the Soweto Security Branch, Colonel Lodewyk de Jager, said that his unit was invited to an information-sharing and planning meeting for the raid at Special Forces headquarters. He stated that his unit had in the past attended similar sessions on ...

Extra-judicial executions and killings 98 The powers granted to security force personnel, and the secrecy in which they operated, created conditions for summary executions and killings for which they did not have to account. Usually, inquests into deaths were not held in operational areas. When ...

■ SABOTAGE AND ARSON 464 While many of the actions described in this section were not in and of themselves gross human rights violations, they were state-directed acts of extra-territorial aggression and a component of the South African government’s counter-revolutionary warfare strategy. ...

Volume ONE Chapter ONE Foreword by Chairperson THE MOST REVD D M TUTU ARCHBISHOP EMERITUS 1 All South Africans know that our recent history is littered with some horrendous occurrences - the Sharpville and Langa killings, the Soweto uprising, the Church Street bombing, Magoo’s Bar, the ...

The report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was presented to President Nelson Mandela on 29 October 1998. Archbishop Desmond Tutu Chairperson Dr Alex Boraine Vice-Chairperson Ms Mary Burton Revd Bongani Finca Ms Sisi Khampepe Mr Richard Lyster Mr Wynand Malan* Ms Hlengiwe ...

Implications for the work of the Commission 50 Following the court ruling, the Commission adopted the procedure of sending section 30(2) notices to alleged perpetrators twenty-one clear calendar days in advance of the hearings. Notices were accompanied by all documentation necessary to provide ...

Staff People have served this Commission in a range of different capacities and for different periods of time. Every attempt has been made to identify and record the names of all those who have served the Commission on a full-time, part-time and voluntary basis up until the time of reporting. ...

The case of the Chetequera/Mariental detainees An estimated 200 to 300 South West African refugees in Angola were captured by the SADF during the raid on Chetequera in 1978 and taken to Oshakati military base, where many were tortured. A year later, UN officials published the names of 130 people ...

The mining industry 62 From the early days of the Boer Republics, mining capital played a major role in shaping and driving cheap labour policies. Strategies included the following: a influencing legislation that forced black workers into the wage system (and managed their allocation within ...

Volume FIVE Minority Position Submitted by Commissioner Wynand Malan ■ INTRODUCTION1 We were seventeen individuals appointed by the President to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (the Commission). Although not representative of the South African society, we do come from different ...

Exoneration 29 A particularly complex healing process is involved in restoring trust where someone has been falsely accused of being a spy or an informer. In a number of cases, the Commission helped to restore the dignity of those who were thus falsely accused. This is illustrated by the ...

273 Over the Easter weekend in 1987, an operation to assassinate a senior member of MK’s Special Operations Unit, Mr Johannes Mnisi, failed. Instead, three Batswana citizens were killed and seven injured. Mnisi was believed by the security police to have been involved in the Church Street ...

24 Thus on many occasions, the Commission was able to help restore the dignity of victims and their loved ones by respectfully acknowledging their contribution to the struggle against apartheid. Archbishop Tutu’s response to testimony by family members of the ‘Cradock Four’ at the East ...

■ RESISTANCE TO ABUSES 132 The Commission acknowledged that it was difficult for health professionals, particularly those with dual loyalties, to fight against the systemic human rights abuses that apartheid so deeply entrenched in the health sector. There were, however, many instances where ...

The process followed by the President’s Fund 26. Once forwarded to the President ’s Fund, application forms were registered and prepared for payment and service recommendation. Victims were sent a letter from the President and a letter from the Preside n t ’s Fund. This included the amount ...

14 The Argus Group and its editors supported the amendments, believing them to be an effort to keep control of the press in the face of the threatened legislation. SAAN editors opposed them, as did most local chapels of the South African Society of Journalists (SASJ). 15 On 21 August 1976, the ...

APLA operations 42. Applications from persons claiming to have been members or supporters of APLA – the armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) – presented the Committee with problems peculiar to this particular category of applicants. 43. These problems resulted from certain ...

■ STATE HEALTH ORGANISATIONS The Department of Health15 28 The Department of Health was the arm of the national government responsible for public health services. It provided for care at the local, provincial and national levels, allocated state funds, drew up regulations and appointed ...

■ THE LIBERATION MOVEMENTS 109 The Commission notes that, while the liberation movements were motivated by a just cause in the struggle against apartheid, they nevertheless committed gross violations of human rights both inside and outside of the country. 110 The Commission notes further ...

Amnesty applications 31 Given the difficulties and constraints in accessing information, the Commission relied, to a large extent, on a different form of submission – amnesty applications. 32 In reviewing its efforts to uncover the deeper truth behind the violations of the apartheid era, the ...