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ANC campsExplanation There isn’t anything to hide about these camps. There ought not to be the notion of a dark cloud as the Commissioner was saying, because you have a sense that there was something that was hidden, that we should be ashamed of, that needs to come out during these hearings. The overwhelming majority ... ... Africa. For these men and women it’s a day of achievement and celebration, but many of their comrades who fought and trained with them in the ANC camps did not return home. Some were killed by the South African security forces. Many died or disappeared at ANC camps or places of detention. ... ... we took him to meet his father’s killer. We also show you the dark side of the ANC in exile. Ill treatment, paranoia, torture and executions in ANC camps in neighbouring states. But first the story of Tshidiso Motasi. In 1987 Sergeant Richard Motasi and his wife Busisiwe were murdered by a ... Williams says his experience in ANC camps has left him scarred. // I want to remember this, and it would be hazy and my head would feel like cracking, you understand? Sometimes it would be like I’m losing my mental capabilities. // This is probably why he struggled to relate his story to a ... ... the frontline states played host to the liberation movements who kept personnel bases and transit camps as close to home as they could. In 1980 the ANC made their presence felt with the raid on the Sasol oil ... ... violent clashes between the traditionalist ?headmen? of Crossroads known as Witdoeke and the young, militant activists or Maqabane of its satellite camps. Victims gave testimony at the HRV Committee hearings held in Athlone (9 to 11 June) this week. We also hear testimonies from survivors and ... ... shattered by the paranoia of the new Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin. Millions of people were labelled enemies of the revolution and sent to labour camps or gulags. Many millions died or were executed. Among those were three South Africans who were in Moscow at the time. This is the sad story of ... The rule of Stalin becomes synonymous with terror, paranoia and witch hunts of those deemed to be enemies of the revolution. Millions are sentenced to concentration camps, many die or are executed. After presentation by Matthews Phosa, now premier of Mpumalanga, and a protracted hunger strike charges against Hlongwane were withdrawn and he returned to South Africa in August 1991. On his return he found that his mother had been necklaced as a result of his activities. // The issue of my ... Commission is issuing subpoenas this week for a special hearing on the topic after new information has come to light. Next week we take you into the ANC’s camps in neighbouring states with tales of torture and we introduce you to a man who has the inside story of much of the violence in ... ... could affect the Truth Commission process. But De Kock is not the only evil in tonight’s programme; we’re taking you to Joseph Stalin’s death camps in the former Soviet Union with the story of South Africans who died there; we probe the concepts of vigilantism and the third force and we ... Tutu and Doctor Alex Boraine?s visit to the Women?s Monument in Bloemfontein, commemorating the women and children who died in British concentration camps. ... in trains and taxis, internally based operatives often made errors that APLA had earlier avoided. There was little political work done unlike in the camps abroad. These are the causes of the departures in the 1990s which we as political leaders who declared war must and do take responsibility for. ... ... is nothing that happened there when we would have liked to see people who were actually in those camps coming forward and testify. And give a chance to those who have lost their loved ones to come and say yes I lost my loved one through this manner and that way. All those things, I don’t ... week. And we remind you that human rights violations were not the monopoly of the apartheid state. We hear the story of one man’s suffering in the ANC’s camps in Angola. But we start with Dirk Coetzee at the amnesty hearings in Durban. I met Coetzee in 1989. He was angry and disillusioned. He ... ... we hope that many will hear the cries, will see the tears from way back, including the tears of those who wept for the victims in the concentration ... ... Monument to one of the biggest human rights violations in our history, the death of more than 26 000 women and children in British concentration camps. From our team, good night. ... ... Professor Dan Bar-On is a psychologist from Israel who works with the children of Nazi perpetrators and the children of Jews who survived the death camps of Germany. We spoke to him about what we can learn from that ... On the bases of these confessions the Communist International expel them from the Communist Party of South Africa and pack them off to Soviet labour camps for a sentence of five ... Human rights violations inside the ANC’s detention camps |