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people's warExplanation Showing 181 to 200 of 1000 First Page•Previous Page 6 •7 •8 •9 •10 •11 •12 •13 •14 Next Page•Last Page... And we hope to bring you some straight answers in our programme next Sunday. Our team will also be in Upington and Thohoyandouthis week. We look forward to your company next Sunday evening. Good ... 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 ... During the coming weeks we’ll be taking a behind the scenes look at some of the people who drive the truth and reconciliation process. Tonight we meet one of the 17 commissioners, Hlengiwe Mkhize at her home near Johannesburg. It remains however a sad fact that we have to admit that the historic struggle of the Afrikaner for freedom and self-realisation did not bring about the sensitivity that was needed in order to understand the same motivations and concerns when they came from black people. Perhaps the worst of our ... Well it certainly seems as if the Truth Commission process is gaining momentum. A lot of people who felt that the Truth Commission concentrated too much on the sad stories of victims and was not getting to the real story of our sordid past must be changing their minds. The Inkatha Freedom Party was ... I’d like to emphasise that we’ll always listen and try as much as possible to meet the needs of the people. But what we are going to do is to translate those needs in a way that’s going to be viable for the government and in a way that’s going to help the national healing of the ... Let’s turn our attention now to the Amnesty hearings in East London this past week. Young people play a large role in the transformation of our country. In the 1970s the young lions took to the streets to fight Bantu education. In the 1980s we heard the cry, ‘no education before liberation.’ ... Right, final question, Gail. // The bottom line is that people need material reparation out of this process. OK, every time you go into dusty dorpies you see that people don’t have work, they don’t have homes, they’re not getting decent education. There’s major tension in your Commission ... ... it was your prerogative to say, if this means arrest, let it be … in those terms because we don”t want a situation arising afterwards that people will eliminate people, in the sense of killing them, when in fact what was meant was that they should be arrested or be detained. ... You know, I’m sick because I’m crying. I haven’t got even a chance to talk to you because I’m very upset. // When it comes from the horse’s mouth you know, from the person who had done the thing, really it’s touching my heart. And everybody I’m sure is touched. It is very sad, ... I wanted the truth. Now I’ve heard the truth. I’m so happy. Look at me today, because I heard what happened to him. I know he was fighting for the people of South Africa; he wanted to free the people in South Africa, because we were oppressed. The people were given coffee; there was a sleeping drug in it which was provided by Capt van Zyl or Lt Niewoudt. It was put in their coffee and given to them. Shortly thereafter they fell asleep and then the people were taken out of the garage one by one and they were eliminated. // Who did the ... Referring to the December 1985 raid into Lesotho in which seven people died De Kock said ‘I have no doubt that State President PW Botha must have known about this.’ After the raid De Kock and his men were decorated with the police cross for bravery, one of three medals for bravery that De Kock ... ‘One of the growing number of countries plagued by terrorist atrocities is South Africa. There organisation principally responsible is the African National Congress. Its present leader is Oliver Tambo.’ // ‘ANC: VIP’s of Violence’ // ‘The answer is that the ANC is a terrorist ... At the end of the testimony on Duncan Village Truth Commissioner Bongani Finca insisted that those who treated victims of the massacre appear before the Truth Commission. We’ve all heard of the shameful role doctors have played in the deaths of activists like Steve Biko. But it is only now as the ... I found her lying dead and her stomach was big and her mouth was wide open and her eyes were open as well. // And Sibusiso ran and went to the bridge next to Luzeke. That is where they got him when he was running away from them. // It was after my son’s death, the impi was coming for the second ... We have asked the Minister of Justice and he has agreed to our request that the Amnesty Committee should be enlarged. This is in order to ensure that all the applications are dealt with by our Committee. We hope that it will be able to have finished its work at best at end of this year. It just ... This coming week the Human Rights Violations Committee of the Truth Commission will hold its last public hearing. During the past 14 months we have become familiar with the commissioners and Committee members who listen, question and sympathize with the victims at these hearings. Their faces are ... When the PASO executive members ordered us 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 ... Mining is what keeps the wheels of Welkom turning. Together with Alanridge and Virginia, it forms the second richest gold mining area in the country. The city is young and growing. It is surrounded by rural Free State towns like Brandfort, Odendaalsrus and Kroonstad, traditional farming ... |
