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people's warExplanation Showing 501 to 520 of 1000 First Page•Previous Page 22 •23 •24 •25 •26 •27 •28 •29 •30 Next Page•Last PageHe does all these wrong things. Walks up and down; chases people. He hits people, when he goes off his head, then he hits people. He walks up and down, he does not sleep at all. Even if we take him to hospital he does not sleep there. In the middle of the night he comes home. We were woken up by stones which were thrown to the house, we had to wake up. I peeked through the window and I saw many people and I could recognize some of them, because they live in the same street. I also went to the back window and then I saw one with a petrol gallon, it is Maqotinala Xonti. I ... Land of fun, sun, and Sol Kerzner, but something was wrong in the state of Bophuthatswana. // Bophuthatswana was the National Party’s shining example to people of the world that Verwoerd’s dream of separate development could work. Established in 1972 this patchwork of seven bits of land was ... In Bongulethu kitskonstabel action ranged from revenge killings to indiscriminate shooting sprees. Between September 1987 and January 1988 six people were wounded. On January 10, 1988 another mini-massacre took place. Three people: Selvyn Botha, Johnny Carelse and Soyisile Douse were shot and ... Well, this is then the end of the road for the Special Report. This is the 87th time I sat here introducing our programme to you. You saw so much of me some people might have thought this was my programme. It wasn’t. The Special Report was a very special team effort of the most hard working and ... For me it came as a huge surprise, even to be nominated because there was a long public selection and nomination process. I think 3 or 400 people were nominated by various organizations. I was nominated by the Human Rights Committee and it came as a great surprise that I should have been nominated ... This episode starts with the Amnesty Committee hearings held in Johannesburg (7 to 11 April) and covers the amnesty applications of two paramilitary right wingers, Leo Froneman and Peter Harmse, for the 1993 Bronkhorstspruit bomb attack and that of Daveyton Youth Congress member, Phineas Ndlovu, ... ... into Natal command. The information given was that Natal command off-duty personal go to this particular areas and also people from the C R Swarts police barracks. // In this time of truth and reconciliation, isn’t it time that you named your commanders who gave you this order. Why ... Gideon Niewoudt is now on trial in the Port Elizabeth Supreme Court for murder. // The Motherwell bombing case. The state alleges that he was involved in the murder of other policemen. // At the Truth Commission hearing this week Niewoudt was once again implicated in torture. Because of the court ... Eight people were killed on that night and amongst them our youth leaders and some civic member leaders were killed by that group. So they knew who they were taking. // Linda Twala had a lucky escape that night. I survived to testify to police callousness and brutality. Edmundt Zondi came to the Commission this week to tell how his sister and his son were killed, his house was looted and set alight and his livelihood, his taxi, burned out. // On the 25th of March 1990 IFP had a rally in Durban, so on their way back one of the buses stopped there. My son alighted ... St. James today looks like any other church in the suburbs. Inside its quiet, sun slanting down onto pews, hymn books neatly arranged for the next service. On Sundays more than a thousand people file into its vast interior, but on a stormy Sunday’s night in July four years ago, shortly after the ... The Ciskei puppets skilfully undermined all those litigations by arresting and detaining the lawyers who were defending those people or some who actually had civil claims against the Ciskei government. Of course when they were told, it was interpreted in a political way that you are taking the ... My life since then has been very, very difficult. It’s had a big element of self destruction. I’ve been through two marriages. I have a daughter. But really I’ve just destroyed the people around me, my friends, my family and I think it’s enough now. When Chris was abducted at Zone 12 the people I had mentioned were Hunter, Zandi as well as Themba. And when the people saw those people, these names were mentioned – three people – but Khetisi was not mentioned. ... is incidents of St James’s and the Amy Biehl ones. // The question, which was a simple one, remains unanswered. Was the leadership of the PAC aware of what took place in the incidents that it itself has brought to us. And if it only became subsequently aware of these incidents, did the ... I literally didn’t believe it. I thought that not even this government’s that stupid and when it sank in it was a terrible shock and we all, all of his friends, apart from the tragedy of it there was a sense of anger, a lot of anger. // It’s a long time, but it’s like yesterday, because ... Not all self defence unit action was this benign. In the townships around Johannesburg self defence units were involved in day to day combat with amongst others Inkatha members and the internal stability unit. Many people lost their lives in the ever spiralling violence and for many the self ... The 1953 Bantu Education Act, separated schools and curricula for white and black, inferior education for black communities. It began with the National Party’s rise to power and the policies this man, Dr Hendrik F Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid. He was determined to deny black people, ... He might not be forgiven but Trust Feed killer Brian Mitchell was granted amnesty and set free in December. It was not a popular decision. He had served less than five years of his 30 year sentence for the killing of 11 people in the Natal Midlands. It was a tragic mistake as the four policemen ... |
