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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 PageI haven’t even reached 12 yet. I wasn’t even in standard five yet. That’s when I became wanted by these people who call themselves the justice system, but we all know that they were the injustice system. In 1987 nearly the whole organisation I represent here today was arrested. I was still on ... The year is 1993. South Africa was on the eve of a remarkable negotiated settlement. One area was clinging steadfastly to the old order, Lucas Mangope’s homeland of Bophuthatswana. The people of the homeland mobilized for their freedom but Mangope’s security forces did not let go easily. At the ... ‘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!’ 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 ... 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 ... Today the cinema is a bricked up cavern. Bits of glass on the ground recall that there were once windows and doors reflecting the throng of people arriving for an evening’s entertainment or discussion. Now it stands empty as a monument to horror. 15 people died and the police made no attempt to ... The gruesome murder was the start of a saga that would grip the community of Pabalelo for years to come. 26 people, ranging in ages from 17 to 57 were charged with the murder. 25 were found guilty on the ground of having common purpose with the killers. 14 were sentenced to death. They were on ... As elsewhere so here at Stellenbosch the ideology of nationalism in the course of time left a substantial imprint on Christians’ ways of thought. It made us insensitive to the injustice and suffering inflicted by the policy of apartheid about many of those living in close proximity to us. 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. ... ‘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 ... After Nelson Mandela’s release and after the last political prisoners left Robben Island in 1991 there were many questions about the Island’s future. After much debate is has now been declared a National Monument and Museum. More than 250 people now make this trip across Table Bay every day to ... 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. 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. 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Miriam Moleleke had similar experiences but she stopped being a victim. // I want to say I’m healing somehow. Ek is gesond. Ek is OK. [I’m healthy. I am OK]. Ek het dit deurgegaan. Ek het gepraat daaroor. Ek het dit gevoel, maar ek het gese ek moet kans gee vir ander mense dat hulle dit moet ... Few other actions of the South African Defence Force caused as much bitterness in Namibia as the attack on Cassinga on May 4, 1978. Last week, the Minister of Defence, Joe Modise, apologised to the Namibian government and people because a group of soldiers commemorated the raid in Cassinga with a ... Listen, let me tell you all the people, all they say, we must say sorry, we must say sorry. Are you sorry, are you sorry? And just to say I am sorry is an empty word. You know what I mean? Can you really be sorry? It’s the third time in my life that I meet you but sorry … I’m not the type of ... |
