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people's warExplanation Showing 581 to 600 of 1000 First Page•Previous Page 26 •27 •28 •29 •30 •31 •32 •33 •34 Next Page•Last PageWhen she arrived in the room she questioned us, why we allowed a white priest to sleep with us. We did not approve of that and then she asked Stompie why was Stompie selling the people? Stompie disagreed with that kind of information and then she started hitting us with fists, one by one. After ... ... and different schools are coming here, talking together, sleeping over; playing music together. That’s fantastic. That’s how we’re going forward and shows also the value of heritage in redefining a South African identity as ... I first got to hear about Jeff Benzien in the eighties when he was torturing people and they were untouchable. I mean, you couldn’t ask them questions related to it, you could do nothing. There were three or four photographers and it happened very quickly. One of the judges asked if anybody had a ... So in 1974 Boraine joined the then Progressive Party and swopped the pulpit for Parliament. // ‘I look for that turning of the corner, that movement away, to take a new direction in South Africa, which will give us hope for the future. I believe that the people of South Africa are ready for that; ... Even if they didn’t call it the final solution, one has to look at the facts. How many black people were killed in the process of either struggling against apartheid and so on? How many black people died as a result of hunger? How many were disadvantaged in so many ways and so deprived of all ... It was the worst of it, where people are not allowed to stay with his wife. They said when they are married that you will be separated by death, but they are separated by the police. It was a very emotional moment, personally. Because I felt the pain that the victims felt and of which I do regret the loss of lives. And moreover in the position in which I saw them. Hoping that this message will be related to the victims and to other people who suffered the struggle. Especially ... toilet and drink from the toilet sink.’ // It was like I was alive and all these people were dead. I was so disturbed but I would not ever let the warders know … but they did destroy me. // He watched from under the bed as they pumped bullets into his brother and into his wife, bullets ... 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. 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 ... 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. 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 ... ... 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 ... So they are the people who know about what happened that evening. Why don’t they come out truly and tell the whole truth, because they are still lying and they let their lawyers lead them what to say and what not to say. How can we believe such people? How can we reconcile with people who are not ... What was it in our people or our history that made this ghastly practice possible and so popular? // There’s a whole process that leads finally to the brutality of the necklace as a method of murder. And that for me is actually what we should have recorded in the eighties and it never got ... The Bonteheuwel Military Wing started precisely because we needed to respond to the manner in which the state operated. We needed to one, defend ourselves, defend our community, because it appeared as if our community were under siege. We had a situation where there were, police put patrols – and ... You say that during this period - that’s during the eighties, mid eighties - both Ciskei and South African military and police forces were losing control of the situation and they showed using irregular forces and thugs as their covert agents to destabilize these communities and their Committee. ... Were the infiltrators armed? // Definitely. Both groups, as you know it was two incidents, two separate incidents. Both groups were armed. // No there were no firearms on them. There was absolutely no firearms found on these people and nothing were handed to me. It was terror, Stalin was paranoid and he supposed that almost all foreigners are spies and many people in his own country also, he cannot trust them. My heart was closed, not only my eyes, also my heart was closed because of the system. It was all the information we received and rather to take the easy way out and that is to keep quiet and this is why this was an opportunity for me, Mr. Chairman, in which I could say that this thing which ... |
