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people's warExplanation So now Mr Zuma and the other people later, I mean further informed us that they were busy with the investigation, because they said Joy Hayden, according to them, was a plant of the regime who had penetrated the movement and it was later on that they discovered that she was actually a plant and ... ... are individuals and communities who suffered in a specific way as a result of gross human rights violations. What is the obligation of the nation towards these people? What forms of memory, rehabilitation and reparation are reasonably ... ... National Congress, the ANC, to co-ordinate student activities on a national level in order to promote the creation and extension of the people's war strategy. These discussions would also among others focus on a planned national protest actions, boycotts, and so ... Anyway, to cut it short, if the deceased is who we think he is, then we were fighting on opposing sides, we were fighting a war that was caused by ideologies and fanned by politicians. I think I was about four months old when the Nationalist Government came to power, I had nothing to do with the ... "The acts of the Applicants in SWA in 1989 were not part of the conflicts of the past as intended in the TRC Act. These acts were not directed against South African opponents, e.g. the liberation groups or political organisations opposing the then government. The Appellants went to SWA to lend ... This is a person who is, of all people, able to provide all the evidence you require, and you will be able to listen to all that. The press has conveyed an image of this project which is far-removed from the truth, and they also must hear, for once and for all, what this project was about. She never got a chance to go to school and get educated just like other people. The life of people here in the Free State, more especially in the farms that belonged to the Boers, and these Boers were members of the AWB on the farms. Applicant Lieta stated before the Committee that the Motsuenyane Commission wrongly used the name Piliso in its report. They should have referred to him as the person who used excessive force in Lusaka. The Committee doesn’t find it necessary to refer in more detail to the Motsuenyane report. ... MR GOBODO: So, you are trying to say they were not Xhosa people, do you think they were speaking like Zulu or Sotho? ... The distance could have been about two houses and they shone a torch on me and when I tried to face these people or caspar, they stared shooting towards me. I do not know what they threw at me, I thought it was a tear gas canister at first and I continued to run, and I ran past my home. ... He says he had to be involved in the interrogation of Biko because he had already questioned Jones who implicated Biko in his own statement, Exhibit H, wherein he stated that he had overheard a conversation between Titi and Biko about possible ways and means of producing the pamphlet in question. ... What we have got, is what we have picked up from the press or stories what people said, you know what happened to our brother, do you know what happened to your son... That is it. This incident relates to the matter which became known as the Allan Boesak investigation. People were interrogated at Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban. Activists whose names could be recalled by the applicant were Allan Boesak, C. Ntinto, J. Manuel, S. Gunn, T. Yengeni and D. Omar. You were also told at the time that he was somehow connected with the people who were accused in Victoria West of trying to poison the water supply. DR RANDERA: Good morning to you and to your family member. You are 38 years old now and you have also come to tell us about what happened on 18th June 1976. I think we should just remind ourselves that that was two days after June 16th, the uprising that took place in Soweto that is now an ... Smiles tried to explain why he made this statement. He said that he didn't trust the people of the TRC who visited him and requested a statement from him. During his evidence he often explained that he didn't reveal the full truth in his statement of the 27th September 1993 because he didn't want ... MR SANDI: Were there any other people who were with you who were also shot? He, however, remembers that in some instances the people laid charges and dockets were opened. These dockets have since been destroyed. He stated that when a docket was opened against a member of the police force it would go to a certain section where there was a retired Brigadier. He ... The interpreters found that - unfortunate a bit difficult to hear. If - if the Commissioners could assist the victim. We’ve missed that last answer from the person. I’m going to ask - I’m going to ask you to perhaps - with Paul’s help - just move a little bit closer to the mike because people ... CHAIRPERSON: We are now going to go on with the statements of those people who were involved in the Langa Massacre. I would like to make an announcement that from here we are going to move to the scene of the massacre as Commissioners, and there are arrangements made only for the victims so that ... |