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A-Team (OFS)Explanation LESSONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 89. The Commission notes that the issue of exhumations is a sensitive one, requiring further work. The Commission will hand the Ministry of Justice a comprehensive report on the work of the task team, detailing successful exhumations, problematic exhumations and a list ... Absence of political context 26. Many victims came forward to make statements about incidents that were clearly not political and fell into the realm of criminality. In those cases, the Commission made findings to the effect that the case did not fulfil the political requirement . Review of ... BENEFICIARY CONTRIBUTION TO REPARATION FUND 7. The Commission recommends and urges that all beneficiaries of apartheid make a contribution to the Reparation Fund. NATIONAL PROGRAMME OF ACTION 8. The Commission recommends and urges that government and civil society adopt the national programme ... Responsibility for complicity 103. In dealing with the atrocities of the past, the search for justice and accountability has meant that it is important to go beyond those who commit the crimes – the trigger-pullers – and to identify those who are complicit in the violations because they ... The case of Ntombikayise Priscilla Khubeka 7. Six members of the Terrorism Investigation Section of the Port Natal Security Branch and two C1/Vlakplaas operatives applied for amnesty for their role in the abduction, death and subsequent disposal of the body of Ms Ntombikayise Priscilla Ngcobo ... Failure to make use of the Commission’s database 77. The Johannesburg unit did not appear to have used the Commission’s database to cross - reference its work, nor did it access the HRV statements in the possession of the Commission, many of which contained valuable corroborative ... The Testimony of Janusz Walus 144. The Committee found that Mr Janusz Walus was a member of both the CP and the AWB at the time of the incident. He was born in Poland and emigrated to South Africa in 1982 to escape the Communist regime in Poland. He chose South Africa because he believed that the ... AFRIKANER WEERSTANDSBEWEGING 17. The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AW B )219 was founded in Heidelberg during 1973 on a more radical and militant manifesto of conservative aims. AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche traced the origins of the movement to dissatisfaction with the policy of ... RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TAKING THESE MATTERS FURTHER 99. The Commission recommends that the state implement the Commission’s recommendations regarding disappearances. The recommendations are as follows: Recommendation 1: Establishing a special task team 100. A task team should be established ... Outcome of audit 59. The task team established that more than 60 per cent of the exhumations had been adequately performed by the units in KwaZulu-Natal and Johannesburg. 60. However, it also established that there were certain serious corroboration problems in 20 per cent of the cases. In the ... The case of Dikgope ‘Magic Bones’ Madi 46. The difficulties attending the identification process before an exhumation are illustrated by the case of Dikgope ‘Magic Bones’ Madi, one of the cases dealt with by the Johannesburg unit. 47. The case involved three MK combatants who had been ... 1984 Mutinies by frustrated MK soldiers at ANC camps Viana and Pango are crushed in early 1984, resulting in the execution of seven mutineers and the imprisonment of others at Quatro rehabilitation camp. The Lusaka agreement between South Africa and Angola is signed in February, after South ... National Statistics Introduction 11 The Human Rights Violations Committee gathered 21 296 statements during the course of its work. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (the Commission) asked all South Africans who had suffered in the political conflicts of the past to come to the Commission ... The work behind the scenes 38 The people who testified in public made up less than one-tenth of all the people who made statements. It is important to stress that all the statements received the same degree of attention by the Human Rights Violations Committee. In order to provide this ... Identification of targets 457 In November 1996, Brigadier Jack Cronjé [AM2773/96] told the Amnesty Committee that, in 1985, the security forces had established a structure, called TREWITS – the Counter-Revolutionary Information Target Centre – whose primary task was to identify targets for ... 58 Transkei’s return to the South African fold, nonetheless, brought its own rewards for the TDF. In the 1982/3 financial year, the TDF received R50 million from the Economic Co-operation Promotion Loan Fund, and a further grant of R30 million above its budgeted allowance to build up its ... Lamontville 218 The Lamontville township, south of Durban, was one of the townships identified for incorporation into KwaZulu. A residents' association opposing both rent increases and incorporation and known as the Lamontville Rent Action Committee was formed. On 25 April 1983, Mr Harrison ... Volume TWO Chapter SIX Special Investigation into Project Coast SOUTH AFRICA’S CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE PROGRAMME ■ INTRODUCTION 1 The Commission's hearings into South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare programme (the CBW programme, also known as Project Coast) during the ... ■ INVESTIGATIVE RESULTS The cause of the fire 10 Nothing in the cargo inventory could have resulted in a "self- promoted" fire. However, the original cargo manifests were not part of the record of the Margo Commission, and it is uncertain whether those in the possession of the ... Killing of own forces 425 Killings were also recorded inside the state or the security forces themselves; the victims were those whose loyalties were questioned or who represented a ‘weak link’ in the chain. A large number of the victims were askaris. Robert and Jean-Cora Smit 426 Mr ... |
