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people's warExplanation Showing 621 to 640 of 1000 First Page•Previous Page 28 •29 •30 •31 •32 •33 •34 •35 •36 Next Page•Last PageTwo years later the Sanlam centre in Amanzimtoti was full of Christmas holiday makers and shoppers when a bomb hidden in the arcade went off. The ANC claimed responsibility, and later a youth Andrew Zondo was arrested, charged and hanged for the offence. Five people died in the blast, among them ... ‘On the refusal of judges to appear before the TRC’ // We suffer still in South Africa from a view that judges somehow, just because they have become judges, are set on a pedestal and beyond criticism. I can quite understand the importance of their independence, but they speak as if they are ... Many of the attacks launched beyond our borders targeted individuals and apartheid’s assassins even travelled as far as Europe to take out opponents. The April 1980 attempt on the life of Michael Lapsley was the last time the embattled nationalist government used the strategy of cross-border ... Hello. We cover the whole spectrum of the Truth Commission process in today’s Special Report: brutality, forgiveness and justice. We focus on two assassinations today, David Webster and Anton Lubowski, and not surprisingly the same characters appear in both dramas. We also look at what that old ... Many of the residents in this land compare us to a bunch of racists who go out to assault people. I think the time has come for us to break away from that. We want to live in peace with the other people of this nation. We want to create a future for our children and our grandchildren. All right, let me go back to Cape Town and I want to ask both of you in Cape Town. Can you imagine, this is now two years after the process had started … let me speak for myself, because I’m hardly … I’m going to try to be very neutral, but I’m not because I’ve lived with this process ... I think that it is unfortunate that remorse is not a prerequisite for amnesty because it makes it empty, but on the other hand I think that it would have been difficult to legislate remorse. It’s difficult to legislate something that people have to feel, to legislate conscience because in a way ... And really I’ll say it. I don’t see how I can forgive this people, never ever. In 1976 Simon Farisani became the first black dean of Beuster House, established by white Lutheran missionaries a century before. // The message was simple, that apartheid was seen … it came from the devil and all serious people must pull their resources to support the freedom struggle of our ... ‘Third Force: Operation Marion.’ // I really can’t give you a very informed opinion. My recollection of that was as I can remember, a case was made out that then Chief Minister Buthelezi’s life was under threat, many of his leading figures had been targeted. There’s need for well trained ... By 1986 the people in the townships around Phalaborwa were increasingly being harassed and terrorized by soldiers from the nearby army base, housing Reconnaissance Five Commando. On Good Friday, 1986 a hand grenade attack on a meeting of township activists shook the community of Lulekani. The lives ... We searched all over for Nokuthula and we never found Nokuthula, even at the border we went to inquire if she’s crossed and to no avail. Some in Swaziland said the ANC people sent her to the republic and we went to the ANC people and they denied any knowledge of Nokuthula. In 1985 we decided to ... Over the fourteen months the South African truth process developed its own unique identity. Even while listening to the most harrowing testimony people could still laugh. People also sang, gave comfort to others and when there was nothing more to say, they prayed. There came a time of violence and fighting and he was chose to lead the people. Really, as his wife I cannot blame him, because of the way he treated me. Oh my God, he had taken care of me, even others used to call me a Mrs. ... and it was really a large rally, I was there myself) called the people up to the third freedom struggle. As the two previous freedom struggles were wars this was clearly a call to arms for ... Did you accompany them taking the woman around the house, to the back of the house? // No sir, I did not accompany them. // Who cut off the woman’s breast? // I do not know because there were many people. // Who raped the woman? // I did not see who raped her, because at that time it was just ... Brian Ngqulunga was a frail, pathetic looking person, human being. He took him, he beat him up and when Brian lost consciousness he picked him up, he threw him up in the sky and when Brian landed with this certain thud, he jumped. You know, if you know De Kock, he’s a big guy with a big torso. He ... I think part of healing ourselves will be to admit what we did to each other. And that’s not only what we did to the ANC, it’s what the ANC did to other people. At quarter to three in the morning my wife and I were asleep in a big double bed at the front of the house when somebody fired over the gate with an assault rifle, firing fully automatic. And it’s a dreadful sound you know, the rat-tat-tat. And there was the smell of explosive and the sound of ... Our next piece has nothing to do with murder or massacres or torture or forced removals. It still breaks your heart. During the apartheid years many African people living in the so-called Coloured preferential areas gave up their ethnic identities and became ‘Coloured’. In the Karoo they called ... |
