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people's war

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a popular national rebellion of both trained soldiers and ordinary civilians during the mid- to late 80s. The strategy, promoted by the ANC, involved integrating armed MK combatants with mass organisations inside South African townships, and rendering the townships ungovernable through attacks on the security forces and other representatives of the state.

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The women always come there talking about what happened to their sons, to their husbands. They hardly tell us about what has happened and yet when you probe deeper you also find that they also experienced violations and some of them more terrible than some of the people they have come to talk ...
This is the Vaal Triangle, home of Eskom, Sasol and many other big industries. Also home to millions of people who work at these industries and their families. They live in grim townships such as Sebokeng, Sharpeville, Bophelong and Boipatong. For some, mostly men from KwaZulu-Natal, this is only a ...
... with the cruel story that started with the arrest of Mamelodi activist, Stanza Bopape on the ninth of June 1988. His disappearance shortly afterwards became one of the big mysteries of the last decade, because few people believed the convoluted cover-up that reached right into the cabinet and ...
The Truth and Reconciliation process is not really about the past. We only need to understand yesterday so we can deal with today and tomorrow. The people of Oudtshoorn understood this; they asked the Truth Commission for a special hearing so they could express their feelings and ideas about the ...
Sophie. // Commissioner Ntsebeza, still on the issue of transparency, will the Commission reveal the name of the spy that the five policemen spoke about, because that is in the public interest, the right to know also has to be respected and the constitution. // Now, the first thing that I must ask ...
‘I see the TRC as a lion without teeth because there is nothing being done to perpetrators, so it has no importance at all. It is a waste of money because the victims end up nowhere.’ // ‘TRC brought more light; it revealed what the nation was not going to know.’ // ‘It’s quite good to ...
Brothers of Tokoza played an important role in youth here in Tokoza why does it make them angry that we smoked drugs, which as Gents we smoke for courage. That made them very angry, but they understood our situation, because to handle a gun, shoot and defend is not something you can just do ...
Thank you for watching. Next week we report on the Human Rights Violations Committee hearings in Mooiriver in KwaZulu-Natal and we bring you a documentary on the young people who were victims of our conflict. Until next Sunday, good night.
Use the word ‘dompas’ today and most children and young people would not understand what you are talking about; yet it was a word feared by their parents and grandparents for many decades. Tonight we look back on this manifestation of one of the worst examples of social engineering in history. ...
Number 176 is the first house which was built in Tembisa around 1962, 1963. This is the first shop in Tembisa; it used to be called Verwoerd Wares. The name changed around 1977. This used to be a building where we were, an administration building. We used to pay rent here. These are the result of ...
Jonathan Shapiro is one of South Africa’s most respected cartoonists ever. Under the name ‘Zapiro,’ his work can be seen every day in newspapers, such as the Sowetan and the Mail & Guardian. Shapiro has produced quite a number of cartoons on the Truth Commission process. // // Some of the ...
For Susan van der Merwe knowing how her husband died has not answered the question of why he had to die. // If it was a military operation, for instance if my son who was in the army, if they had told me he had lost his life it would have been different. Because he was a trained soldier fighting ...
In June 1986 South Africans watched in horror as a woman got burnt to death, on television. Maki Skosana’s very public necklacing started a whole new trend. But few people know about the events which led to this killing frenzy in Duduza on the East Rand. // Joe Mamasela, former Vlakplaas ...
Irene March has accepted the deaths of her two sons, but it is the mysterious disappearance of David that will not leave her. That haunts her as much today as it did 13 years ago. // Sometimes weekends I go to church if I like. Sometimes I just go to the meetings to be with other women. Also, I’m ...
Each shift that I worked, on each of these shifts there were assaults and if you want me to estimate the number I would say a 1000 plus people in my career, in my short career in the police. // I did as I pleased. I had the power in my hands. It was so obvious that a former Lieutenant Meyer called ...
APLA then was fighting, returning a bullet with a bullet, protecting the Africans in Azania and the PAC was busy using other tactics so that you people in the government could hear the cries of the children of Azania. If your ears couldn’t listen, APLA decided to take guns to open the ears that ...
It was a white person wearing balaclavas. Round the eyes I could see and the nose was a sharp nose and it wasn’t that of our black people.
No, I’m not sorry for what I did. Like I said in the past, I’m sorry for the people, for the waste of human life. Because say for instance we killed another 2000, there was no difference in the outcome of this whole political incident.
And out of the blue one day in 1995 Barney Pityana phoned me and said Wendy can the Human Rights Commission nominate you for the TRC? And I said Barney I’d be honoured, but surely there are other people who are far more appropriate and suitable. And he said, no we think you should be on it so I ...
I think that the Afrikaner people should not therefore feel guilty, they should not feel bad, they should begin to take the hand of those that are saying we should reconcile, we should concile.
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