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people's warExplanation I don’t think anybody here, the general, myself, likes war. I’ve met very few military people who do. War is horrific and is best avoided, but does this mean that when war cannot be avoided that those who are involved are all equally evil or equally guilty? ... aligned residents. This is followed by a special documentary on the people of the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, with a focus on the March 1990 Seven Day War. The episode concludes with Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaking to Max du Preez about truth, reconciliation and the progress of the Truth ... ... on the HRV Committee hearings held in Pietermaritzburg (18 to 21 November) where we hear testimonies from victims of the March 1990 Seven Day War in the greater Edendale Valley, KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, during which nearly 200 people died and 200 000 were left homeless. It also includes ... ... over the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The Boers disagreed. On 11 October 1899 the South African Republic and the Orange Free State were at war with the British Empire. The Boers were devastated, in spite of a legendary and heroic effort. They suffered their greatest losses in British ... ... no idea what it’s about. They have no idea what goes through your head. You have to remember that our parents’ generation did not experience a war. Our grandfathers were in the Second World War. Then our parents missed a war and the next generation was again involved in a war and there ... ... no idea what it’s about. They have no idea what goes through your head. You have to remember that our parents’ generation did no experience a war. Our grandfathers were in the Second World War. Then our parents missed a war and the next generation was again involved in a war and there ... there is no other word for what happened in the Natal midlands in 1990. 200 people died in the single biggest massacre in our history, the seven day war. Tonight we will tell you what happened and how it happened and we will give you the full drama of the Truth Commission hearings in ... ... is something specially constructed to enable people to mourn, to remember, where they can go. And perhaps the finest example of that is the Vietnam War Dead Monument in Washington. Instead of putting up a big, imposing lump of concrete with all sorts of dazzling features and so on, it’s a very ... ... 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 thousands of former soldiers of Umkhonto we Sizwe and ... took place on Saturday the 15th of February, 1986. After the burial angry youth clashed with heavily armed police. This was the start of the six day war. ... The six day war expelled the police from Alex. Black policemen were seen as siding with the oppressor, and they were no longer welcome in the community. Comrades and people’s courts took over the keeping of law and order. // But in April the police came back to wreak havoc. // With that sort of background Mdlala and Harrington did not question their biased roles in the seven day war. Mdlala was called to arms on day three when Ashdown and Xaluza were attacked by two impi’s. Mdlala was in the group from Elandskop; IFP InDuna David Ntombela’s stronghold. // It was at ... But it was devastating to the AWB and changed right wing politics very fundamentally. // It’s easy to talk about war and especially for people in the AWB at that time. Every second sentence they said had to do with war and nobody has actually ever seen it. And, when they saw that on television ... ... entitled to a straight answer. // What I’m saying mister Chairperson is that Mr. Du Plessis was referring to violence, Dr Treurnicht was talking war. // Oh I see. There’s a difference is there between killing people in war and killing people by assassin. // There is mister Chairman, there ... ... September, I think it was about October, the 9th of October Dave Ntombela who is very much against the UDF took a group of men and they went over towards that hill there, an area called Zondisto, and they murdered in one of the houses there that night a woman and a child and a young man belonging ... There has been this concept rather, that has been created in our people’s mind that the war that we were fighting had rules, the war was pure, and it was a war that was … in the end, there’ll be no loss of life, it would be an easy war. And that concept has destroyed to a large extend the ... A good policeman at the unit was identified by the amount of hours of hard work he had put in, and definitely you had to be anti-ANC in a very strong manner. // We were shown video tapes and we saw people we were being necklaced by tyres and we saw houses were burnt down and people were killed. We ... … go for a gun if the government is ruled by a minority that has allocated itself the right to rule the majority, but I know that war is evil and from time to time we rationalize it, some time we view it as a necessary evil. Some people will call it just war; others will call it holy war. By so ... We are proud of what we did. We…. 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 is by its very nature evil and if the war has another method to avoid it we would have avoided it. They were legitimate targets of the struggle because they were occupying the very trophy for which war was all about, that is the land. Because when we say ‘we were conquered,’ what we mean is that our land was conquered and the land wasn’t conquered by the ghosts, by the spirits, invisible ... |
