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WHITE, KimAge Description ... our land was conquered and the land wasn’t conquered by the ghosts, by the spirits, invisible beings, it was conquered by the Europeans, by the whites. And we identified the farms as one point at which the fortunes of war will be decided. So now it was a question of conscientising the people ... of their children, how their children were murdered, that they could have stood up to say. Yes, we are willing to forgive. But when you think of the white woman in King Williamstown who says after she’s been through a hand grenade attack and there’s shrapnel in her body still. She says that ... Exiled and angry. Hain hurled himself into anti-apartheid activity. He attacked the core of white South Africa’s white identity: sports. // ‘How about rugby? Did you know that that great South African institution was invented by the English back in 1823 and where would Vrystaat be without it? ... Matthew Goniwe was going to be transferred back to Graaf-Reinett. He was from Graaf-Reinett, but he was staying here. And now we are going to have a white principal, Mr. Visagie in the high school. That’s when things go upside down, because we didn’t want him to leave. We didn’t want the ... ... to go out and prepare the groundwork for APLA and to make the township ungovernable I regarded this as an instruction to also harm, injure and kill white people. When I saw that the driver of the vehicle which we had stoned and which had come to a standstill was a white person I immediately asked ... was in there Sithole took the sjambok and hit him. Sipho seemed to be the person who was already beaten before I arrived. One of the policemen was a white one, instructed Sipho to stand up. Then he kicked very hard to Sipho. Every time I asked them not to continue beating ... was taken to the kombi also. I was given instructions by a Colonel Venter, at that stage, that I must drive this people’s car and follow a certain white Mazda car, and I did as I was ... One had a sense that once the victims were stretching out this hand of reconciliation, the white society in general in this province, seemed to be not interested in publicly – perhaps people were feeling it internally, I don’t know – that hurt me very profoundly and made me perhaps to even ... For Elizabeth Lloyd, partner and fellow activist colleague of Neil Aggett who was found hanging from the steel bars of his prison cell in 1981 death was ultimately the objective of detention. Medical doctor and trade unionist Aggett was the first and last white person to die in detention. different. This is Mlungisi cemetery where 11 victims of the 1985 Queenstown massacre lie at rest. The trouble began with a consumer boycott against white businesses in August. On the 17th of November, in the run-up to Christmas, the people of Mlungisi gathered at this church for a report back on ... There were shots and people were crying. As I was running a white person said ‘Zulu, capture him, there he is’ and I went straight into the passage. When I got into the passage they couldn’t see me anymore and I heard a loud bang of a gun behind me, seven times. I ran just alongside the ... this opportunity, as I did at my amnesty hearing to say to the community I’m sorry for what has happened to them. // Let me say that it is not the white man, we created the mud that enabled him to divide us, we created this mud, so we should clean ourselves because we are responsible for the ... protecting this village end up charged with the murder of 11 of its residents. Up to 1988 Brian Mitchell’s story is the story of hundreds of young white South African men. He joined the police force when he was just 18 years old. During his training in 1976 he was attached to a riot unit in ... Slippers also told the Committee that he’d lost his wife just weeks after the white by night murder. She died in a road accident involving a black motorist. // I hope that the community, especially the family of the deceased can forgive me for what I did to them, the same way I forgave the black ... ... Freedom Charter was adopted. This historic document wanted freedom and democracy for all and declared that South Africa belonged to all its people: white and black. ... ... behavioural malfunctions of soldiers who had fought in Vietnam. In South Africa it was first called ‘bossies’ after the experiences of mostly white South African soldiers in the bush during the war on our borders. But post traumatic stress disorder is also a condition suffered by many ... ... no newspaper who would print it. It was almost as if opposition politicians and newspaper editors sensed that this story would crack the façade of white rule. That it would inevitably lead to a total exposé of what apartheid really was, a violent, evil ideology. I was the editor of a ... ... of the hostel and that’s how I ended up at Wits, in the late 1979 period. I think I was one of four students who were admitted to Wits, four non white students as they were then called. After a long period at Wits, it’s a very difficult period for me because I’ve not being used to mixing ... I believe that we have now created conditions, the most ideal conditions ever in the history of the country, for black and white South Africans and when I say black I include Indian and coloured communities as well, I include everybody. I think we have created the most ideal conditions for the ... The exposures made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission have filled many white people and many of us in the church of England in South Africa with shock, shame and revulsion. Looking back it is amazing that we were so naïve. Be that as it may, the fact of the matter is that we allowed ... |
