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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 PageThroughout the 1980s most of the state’s aggression was unleashed on the black youth of the country. In 1986 26 000 people were detained, 40 percent of those were 18years old or younger. At least 1 198 people died in political violence in the same year, a third of whom died in the hands of ... This episode focuses on the HRV Committee hearings held in Sebokeng and Helderberg during the first week of August. From Sebokeng we hear evidence of IFP and hit squad violence in the Vaal Triangle region during the era of negotiations, focusing on the 12 January 1991 Nangalembe night vigil ... ... where are our loved ones? Where can we locate their remains? Therefore the sooner we know, and appeals will be made to people who know, come forward. Not just my family. I mean, we should talk about everybody in South Africa. Whoever knows where, what, how things happened, come forward. ... It’s unfortunate when you look into the attendance here, that the majority of the white people, and our brothers and sisters, are not here as South Africans. What would close the chapter of our own country, of our own past, and they are part of that history. // We are not out to blame and white ... I realized that they were going to be killed at the scene of the crime when the people were singing these freedom songs. And you’d find that when you were stopping one side, something would happen on the other side and you couldn’t control the people and people were saying things like ‘our ... Du Plessis is serving a twelve year prison sentence and Van Wyk life imprisonment. This week they appeared before the Amnesty Committee. Both men believe they have been rehabilitated. Du Plessis had converted to Christianity and started a regular church service in jail. // Not only the three people ... I would say that we are moving, but it is really for me too early to say that we have formed a new morality. We are busy looking at these things. A lot of people are still clinging to the past. A lot of people say, well it is new and everything is new, but there’s not more love and more justice ... Sadly there are many graves still to be dug up in the next few weeks. When one looks at the tears of the family and friends gathered around these graves one cannot help but feel anger at those responsible for the killings. The Truth Commission is asking all of us to forgive these people. It would ... No, I’m not sorry for what I did. Like I said in the past, I’m sorry for the people, for the waste of human life. Because say for instance we killed another 2000, there was no difference in the outcome of this whole political incident. And out of the blue one day in 1995 Barney Pityana phoned me and said Wendy can the Human Rights Commission nominate you for the TRC? And I said Barney I’d be honoured, but surely there are other people who are far more appropriate and suitable. And he said, no we think you should be on it so I ... I think that the Afrikaner people should not therefore feel guilty, they should not feel bad, they should begin to take the hand of those that are saying we should reconcile, we should concile. Time for another portrait of the people behind the Truth Commission process. Truth Commissioner Denzil Potgieter recently joined the amnesty committee. Our cameras caught him at work in Port Elizabeth this week. Professor Giliomee could you give us an idea of the public perception of the Truth Commission process so far. // I think the best indicator we have is the most recent public opinion poll that was published about a week ago, it’s a mark data poll and it shows that at the moment only half of the ... Use the word ‘dompas’ today and most children and young people would not understand what you are talking about; yet it was a word feared by their parents and grandparents for many decades. Tonight we look back on this manifestation of one of the worst examples of social engineering in history. ... Number 176 is the first house which was built in Tembisa around 1962, 1963. This is the first shop in Tembisa; it used to be called Verwoerd Wares. The name changed around 1977. This used to be a building where we were, an administration building. We used to pay rent here. These are the result of ... During the conference of December 1993, that was in Umtata was it not? // That’s correct. // You say the armed struggle or the idea of the armed struggle was to continue; that was the resolution that was taken at that conference. // That’s correct. // Was that a clear signal that went out from ... We had another two guys who were from Natal, they escaped to Swaziland and then we were given a mission to go and hunt them down, we were given false passports, a car, a hide-out compartment to hide the weapons which we are going to use there. And then they went in, we followed them, De Kock and ... There’s no way that you can take away the rainbow aspect of our nation, it’s there, it’s permanent. It’s just that it has to be cemented further by ensuring that there’s parity between people in terms of conditions of their lives, conditions at work, at school, at their residencies. We ... Sophiatown was truly a melting pot, a place where musicians, artists, writers and gangsters combined to create an excitement that is still remembered with nostalgia. People lived as if they were free in a time that white capital and Afrikaner nationalism gathered forces to formalize a most ... The cause was just but in the process people lost their lives. And I ask of you to please, please consider forgiving me. Asking forgiveness from you would be something else. But I here now plead with you, I know it’s difficult, but I plead with you to please consider forgiving me. |
