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people's warExplanation Showing 421 to 440 of 916 First Page•Previous Page 18 •19 •20 •21 •22 •23 •24 •25 •26 Next Page•Last Pageand live with others.33 National unity and reconciliation calls for a commitment to share a future and for each, in his or her own way, to build towards that future. It calls for a commitment to respect law and the procedures and processes laid down by the Constitution. All of this already ... Towards national unity and reconciliation: bringing the veterans together 119 At the special hearing on compulsory national service in Cape Town, Commissioner Mary Burton placed the following difficult challenge on the agenda: We heard from people who were opposed to conscription from the ... The violence experienced in this community had a wide range of dimensions, and inflicted deep damage on numerous social relations. While the main dimension of the conflict may have been between the black oppressed population and the state, this conflict was fought in various covert ways which ... police who were seen as responsible for past abuses no longer work or live in Duduza and a new police station was built in the township. Nobody was aware of any amnesty applications that may have been submitted by members of the security forces in the area. There are also no pending court cases. ... ■ NATIONAL UNITY AND RECONCILIATION14 National unity and reconciliation is to be understood as a single concept. Like the concept of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, it is a single idea. To think or to argue that there is no national unity without reconciliation and no reconciliation ... ... security police. ANC/SACP member, Ruth First, is assassinated in Maputo on 17 August by a parcel bomb despatched by South African security police. Warrant Officer Selepe is killed by the ANC in Mamelodi in November. South African commandos attack flats in Maseru, Lesotho, in December; forty-two ... ... the long history of actively promoting the former state and its policies were minor ones. (Their heirs, significantly, made a significant gesture towards reconciliation by making personal submissions of regret following the absence of their employers from the hearing.) 105 At the SABC, a ... Apartheid was a process of dehumanisation. It reduced the majority of our people to objects or physical entities. Imperceptibly, medicine also became dehumanised. The focus was on the disease and not the person, their family and community. South Africa is politically free; however, our people need ... ... to the requirements of the security police or the prison administration. Indeed, many of them …would rather gather information from the warders/jailers than myself. I often wondered who the actual patient was … I, the patient, became invisible… The psychologist who visited me at ... ... South Africa (OASSSA), took on this responsibility. 115 NAMDA disbanded in the early 1990s when it became evident that South Africa was moving towards a new democratic dispensation in which the Department of Health would (it was believed) take on the issues that had triggered its creation. ... ... or declarations would have had little effect. In addition, the fact that psychology was low in the hierarchy of health care has been put forward as a reason for the profession’s failure to act on issues which should have drawn rigorous condemnation. These arguments, however, appear more ... ... The fact that this seldom happened reflects the hierarchical relationship between nurses and doctors, the subordination of nurses, the lack of awareness of ethical rights and responsibilities and the failure of the South African Nursing Council (SANC) to support and encourage the observance ... ... of context or misrepresented, such data can be used for unethical purposes and have adverse outcomes.47 Submissions and amnesty applications forwarded to the Commission, together with court evidence and secondary sources, gave numerous indications that health professionals were involved in ... ... and “all kinds of inside information”. In later years, however, this policy of Afrikaner favouritism was replaced with a policy of patronage towards those businesses that co-operated in the military industrial complex. In return for support, former State President PW Botha granted reforms ... Workers 98 The argument put forward by sections of the business community, that they were not (directly) involved in gross human rights violations, was challenged by the trade unions and others. In this respect, the distinction made by Professor Mahmood Mamdani between “perpetrators and ... ■ FAITH COMMUNITIES AS VICTIMS OF OPPRESSION 66 Black, coloured and Indian members of faith communities suffered under apartheid legislation. Forced removals had a powerful effect on faith communities. The effects were also more direct, where faith communities were attacked for what they ... ... who contested the meaning of such dogma in practice. The influence of Dr Allan Boesak, then President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC), in promoting the adoption of the resolution declaring apartheid a heresy by the WARC in 1982, and subsequently by the World Council of ... Reconciliation and individuals: registering one’s individual commitment 131 To coincide with the national Day of Reconciliation and to mark the second anniversary of the establishment of the Commission, four ‘Registers for Reconciliation’ were opened in December 1997, one in each of the ... Towards reconciliation at a community level 127 The following extracts from statements at the post-hearing programme in Oudtshoorn illustrate central aspects of the reconciliation process at a community level. Mr David Piedt, a community leader, reported: So this was the place, the rural town ... Health care services in prisons 84 The Commission recommends that: THE ROLE, RESPONSIBILITIES AND OBLIGATIONS OF INDIVIDUALS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HEALTH CARE OF PRISONERS AND DETAINEES, BOTH IN PRISONS AND POLICE CELLS, BE CLEARLY DEFINED AND ACCEPTED BY ALL POLICE AND PRISON STAFF. AN AUDIT OF ... |
