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people's warExplanation Showing 721 to 740 of 1000 First Page•Previous Page 33 •34 •35 •36 •37 •38 •39 •40 •41 Next Page•Last PageYou know when you heard it you thought it was absolutely impossible, here she was ready to come home in two days and of all the times she’s been in and out of Africa the last four or five years that this happened. And I think, you know, we were totally devastated… // What Linda says is true. If ... ‘On Interrogation…’ // I had two sort of major sets of interrogation. The first was the old statue one, draw a line and Swanepoel sat there with the various other people and said ‘Jy gaan praat’ [You will talk] and you know you stand there until you talk. And within, I think maybe it ... The people of Bongulethu and Bridgton this week took big steps towards the future as they saw it. They laid down their ideas about rehabilitation for a past of desperate conflict and oppression and they’d laid the symbolic cornerstone for a unified future. Now the question remains of whether ... Before you can have a permit to be in Cape Town, you must be here in Cape Town for the last 15 years and worked for one employer for ten years, or be fifteen years in the area. // So the number of people who could qualify to have a pass that entitled them to be in the urban areas were limited, very ... These are people that permanently are disabled. They will never be able to handle stress again. Their lives will never be normal again. They will always suffer from this syndrome. It’s a living hell. As one person put it to me, he said it’s like watching a horror movie over and over and over ... By Thursday there were at least 23 dead. The people were battered and exhausted. The local UDF leadership grasped this opportunity of a pause in the fighting to step in and take control. // On Thursday afternoon we had to call a meeting to say to the people look now we have so many victims and the ... had already been killed. Now they rounded up the rest of the family and herded them into their house. // When they got there they made them face the wardrobes with their hands up and they stood behind them. The one person who survived there was a young man who opened the wardrobe and got inside. ... It was the best of times and it was the worst of times. // When one speaks to the people that were there they remember the vivaciousness of Sophiatown’s cultural diversity and the magic of its constant and rebellious heartbeat. // The people used to dance and we used to sit here, my mother was ... ‘Thank you very much my dear, thank you very much my friend. We are the rainbow people and as we all know at the end of every rainbow is a pot of gold. Ours has been stolen. Ha! Ha! Ha!’ Why are you seeking to discredit people who I think honestly tried to come and give evidence? I think that for me that’s a problem. The second question I want to put to you is however you perceive the situation these were youngsters who congregated around you, you in fact took them along with you ... ‘Ek wil ‘n beroep doen op die NG Kerk familie, dis die vier apartheids kerke, dat hulle sigbaarheid moet verleen aan die eenheid van Christus, nie vir mense nie, dat hulle sigbaarheid moet verleen aan die eenheid van Christus dat ons nie die volgende millennium in moet gaan as ‘n verdeelde ... The witnesses testified as a group, each one telling their chapter of the story which began as it would end, with a funeral. Almost 2000 people planned to travel from Langa township to KwaNobuhle on the other side of Uitenhage for the burial of six people killed by police during a stay-away the ... Lunchtime January 25, 1980. Three Umkhonto we Sizwe storm into the Silverton branch of Volkskas bank, but it wasn’t a robbery. It is one of MK’s strangest operations. They kept 25 people hostage for six hours. Although the comrades were no match for the gang, retaliation was on the cards. // I think the community realised that this was only a few people. At least if we faced the police then it’s better than facing many people who are coming from different sides. They decided this people should go, and ... Ja, Kabasa I think was formed by the police when they saw the youth and the people around those townships so united behind the UDF, behind LOYOMO, behind the ANC. And the system thought of a way how to destabilize. It really terrorized this township, it brought about divisions where people never ... This week, for the first time ever in the life of the Truth Commission a policeman voluntarily took the stand to give supporting evidence. Capt Peter John Clayton had been on duty the night Adri Faas was shot. He told the Truth Commission what had happened that evening. // I cannot remember ... Vendaland was ideal guerrilla territory, close to the border countries friendly to the ANC and PAC. Mountainous and clustered with orchards of bananas and avocadoes. But it was the support of Vendaland’s people that made the difference for liberation armies. Willie Mudau, a former black ... Eleven people died in the Trust Feed massacre. Captain Brian Mitchell is serving a 30 year sentence for this crime. Four special policemen who were also convicted have since received indemnity. Why is it that form the 1980s young people began to be actively involved in violence concerning witch craft? It was largely political. There were people who wanted to see the country ungovernable, so they used young people to do what they wanted to see accomplished. This episode focuses on the Amnesty Committee hearings held in Bloemfontein (24 to 27 March) and the HRV Committee hearings held in Lusikisiki (24 to 26 March). From Bloemfontein we hear testimonies from four APLA members applying for amnesty for killing a white farmer, JJ Fourie, during APLA?s ... |
