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people's warExplanation Showing 741 to 760 of 1000 First Page•Previous Page 34 •35 •36 •37 •38 •39 •40 •41 •42 Next Page•Last PageOn the farms for example the children were violated by being used as labourers in the lands of the people that were on the farms that is the owners of the farms. Children had to work, some of them as early as ten years old were ploughing and reaping and weeding in the fields were the order of the ... We are particularly outraged at her obvious complicity in the recent abductions and assault on young people like Stompie. We believe that had Stompie and his three colleagues not been abducted by Mrs. Mandela’s football team, he would have been alive today. The Mass Democratic Movement at this ... ... used in his clothes. An investigation into this attack by the Pretoria Attorney-General special task team is nearing completion, eight years ... ... you have demonstrated is one that doesn’t come easily to anyone of us I think and it must be at some cost to yourselves. And I just hope you are aware that you have helped, I think, to pour balm on the wounds of very ... One of the most shameful chapters of the resistance against apartheid was the burning of people, mostly local councillors or people accused of collaborating with the state. Often a car tyre was put around the victim’s neck, filled with petrol and set alight. This was where the term ... First I was told that he was buried alone but when I found out there are so many of these graves here. Now we are depending on the people who are going to work on them to see whether really we are getting the right body. Black resistance in South Africa during these years were partly inspired by the spread of ‘uhuru’ in the rest of colonial Africa. By the mid-sixties many African countries had cast off the colonialist yoke and became independent states. // The PAC organised a massive protest against the pass ... And in the morning the very same people came in the very same uniform. They were still like the previous day. They took my name. They said they needed some statements as to who had injured the people. I was quite scared to tell them that you are the ones that were here yesterday. I can’t give the exact detail how we did the layout and the planning because for the future those type of plans may be used again, so I can’t divulge information regarding that. But the people waited, Vlakplaas members with Piet Retief members, for the people to infiltrate. And what happened is ... ... of some 100 people gathered around his body and he was stabbed and set alight. // It was dark with the crowd as they were running and they ran downwards. A little while later a boy came in the back door and said Aunty Baby they have already killed Jetta and he is lying there ... Dozens and dozens and dozens of killings, no prosecutions and the one prosecution that we’ve had so far is just the foot soldiers. And they have killed. I mean, you talk about Eugene de Kock, someone like Israel Hlongwane has killed dozens of people, I mean there are dozens of Eugene de Kock’s ... It was a truly symbolic moment when these three theologians made their way to the Truth Commission stage this week. Coming from the church seen to have been the theological backbone of the National Party their confession before the people of Paarl and Stellenbosch was a meaningful milestone in the ... ... I say, a person should attack the police or the army, why attack innocent people sitting here enjoying themselves, who never had any ill feeling towards blacks before? And I thought people should be found and justice should be done. Because they haven’t asked forgiveness or anything. ... What happened to Stanza Bopape? It is a question that people of Mamelodi have been asking for nine years. Bopape was a particularly talented young leader in Mamelodi outside Pretoria in the 1980s. If he had been allowed to live he would probably have been a prominent national leader today, which of ... This episode focuses on the HRV Committee hearings held in Umtata between 18 and 20 June and in George from 18 to 19 June. Segments include the 22 November 1990 attempted coup in the Transkei - supported by SA Military Intelligence - which left 19 people dead; testimony from Teddy Williams, a ... ‘The Broader Picture’ // Part of the Truth Commission’s mandate is to give context to the gross human rights violations they have been investigating. That is why not only individuals, but whole sections of society have been called to account. Institutions like business, the medical ... Then there was an attempt to get his handwriting whilst he was being held. // When they detained me that evening they made me to write certain sentences repeatedly. I was writing on an A4 page and at the bottom of the page they asked me to sign. // He was also reminded of Siphiwo Mtimkulu’s ... So when I realised this people, this police were becoming so serious about this matter of Nkosinati. I then decided to tell them the truth. I told them the truth. I told them what the whole situation was. And that situation they have it in their files. If they produced the files, they will find it. ... But policemen are apparently not the only people cynical about the Truth Commission process. From conversations, radio talk shows and letters to newspapers, it appears that ordinary white South Africans do not associate with the Commission. In two months of hearings very few white faces could be ... There was never any reference after that meeting at any time of the third force in any discussion that I can recall except for this continued discussion on do we establish another overt force or not. There was never any reference that I can recall in any way whatsoever of our policy using terrorist ... |
