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people's warExplanation Showing 161 to 180 of 1000 First Page•Previous Page 5 •6 •7 •8 •9 •10 •11 •12 •13 Next Page•Last PageReverend Simon Farisani had some explanation for the support the Venda community gave to the liberation armies. // Many of them did operate in this area. It was hospitable, people accommodated them. There were few instances where they were reported to the security forces. But generally people ... The security system of the then National Party government infiltrated our communities and during the infiltration you cannot really say that this is not a comrade and this is not a member of the ANC or SAYCO for that matter. What you see, you see members of the ANC and through their actions and ... As a result of the way in which the South African police were utilized in Zimbabwe and Namibia, where they were actually used as ordinary soldiers. They hunted people, tried to kill them and eliminate them. Then these members of the South African Police came back to the Republic and were then ... ‘It is a national duty to request and insist that the exact figures on fatal casualties, suicide, disabled and mentally disturbed national servicemen be released according to the Freedom of Information Act, to be put on record in a book of remembrance.’ // What hurts a lot is that they ... Many people took surnames when you knew the man is black because you went to school together. We grew up together. But now the man is a Pietersen or a Hugo or he simply made himself Coloured. That was a rubbish place, I want to tell you. Because mostly people who had been taken there, having a queue and you go naked, without trousers, sometimes they check you how you’re healthy and so forth. But that is another worse story, because you have to queue two to three lines, until your ... I gave the instruction for them to flatten the huts with a caspir and that we would open fire at the same time. It’s the overkill situation that was typically Koevoet. We would shoot as much concentrated fire into a space as possible. We didn’t know how many people might be in there with them, ... She was untouchable. // Mrs. Mandela was not the kind of person whom you visited upon a brainwave and upset her whole household and see if I could arrest her, that would have meant the end of my career at that stage. // I always reached the conclusion that the people were afraid of her. // She is a ... Mr Biko was on the one end and in the process of the shuffle he fell and the others fell on top of him. He was then pushed towards the wall. // You were referring to the wall and where the people fell, could you explain from there onwards what occurred? // An effort was then made to shackle Mr Biko ... In Jo’burg it was worse because mostly people that was arrested, anyhow, anytime. Tress passers get in their houses, hotels, the police go inside of the houses or the flats, they search all these people. They want to know, where do you sleep, where do you come from, who’s your boss, what are ... The evil that people may not have known about is the actual killings and torture, the criminal operations; I mean, I think anybody who’s lived through South Africa in that time must have had some word or rumour of that but you could probably, genuinely have lived through the period and not been ... One of the most shameful chapters of the resistance against apartheid was the burning of people, mostly local councillors or people accused of collaborating with the state. Often a car tyre was put around the victim’s neck, filled with petrol and set alight. This was where the term ... Mr Snyman told me that he had a private conversation with Mr Le Grange and that Le Grange had told him that the situation in the Eastern Province needed attention and should be addressed. He wanted to know why these people weren’t being prosecuted, what the problem was and why people responsible ... Falati also claimed that she was told where the bodies are of some of the other children who disappeared. // Is it correct that you accompanied John Morgan to a certain place where certain pointings out were made? // And he told me that there’s a plantation and there was this mineshaft and Lolo ... have to come, but you have three days to decide. So here I am. I came and it started in a sense one of the most difficult but also one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. The most important part of the work of a Reparation and Rehabilitation Committee is to draft policy for reparation ... In 1968 with the launch of the Black Consciousness movement I ventured into newspaper’s news rooms. What did I find at the Rand Daily Mail? I found black people sitting in a corner designated for black journalists. Mayakiso, Mojapelo these people were put in a corner; they ate in a separate ... sometimes praying for myself that if God can take my life with the child, maybe it will be better. Because there was no privacy. Even from my labour ward to the wards. When I wanted to go to the toilet, they didn’t want me to go to the toilet, as if maybe I’ll run away. So, they brought a ... One of the concrete examples of the new plan Gen Joubert was talking about was the brutal murder of Dr Fabian Ribeiro and his wife Florence in their house in Mamelodi in 1986. Fingers were immediately pointed at the state, but the exact identity of the killers has remained largely a mystery. This ... Pedro had a letter with the names of his contacts in Lesotho. Benzien wanted those names, badly. // I was given instructions to carry a letter which I should not open until such time as I’d cross the Lesotho border and then I would find out who these people were and where I was supposed to meet ... I wish to comment on crimes committed by security forces. Up to 1994 when I was given the job by the then state president in the TEC, of going into the recommendations and findings of the Goldstone Commission, I never realized what was happening in this country in reality. I had a good idea, but ... |
