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people's warExplanation Showing 761 to 780 of 1000 First Page•Previous Page 35 •36 •37 •38 •39 •40 •41 •42 •43 Next Page•Last PageThe special feature on the KwaMakhutha massacre was supposed to be aired as Episode 44 of the Truth Commission Special Report, but owing to technical difficulties, it was never broadcast. Despite this, transcripts and other relevant information related to the massacre can be found on this product, ... I have watched in painful silence my character being butchered in the media. I have witnessed my contribution to this democracy being vilified and ridiculed. I have seen confused panic in my grandchildren’s tearful eyes, attempting to work out whether I am the demon that I am portrayed. I have ... Cross-border raids, a way for police and soldiers to earn medals. To exiled South Africans living in neighbouring states, it only meant death and destruction. This is the tragic story of Jaquiline Quin, her husband Leon Meyer, also known as Joe, their daughter, Phoenix and a close family Quin. The ... I became involved in the Transkei from an Intelligence point of view during 1986 when I was employed by Longreach. Longreach was a Military Intelligence front company, in other words, a project run by Craig Williamson and myself and a few other people. I was tasked to monitor the Intelligence ... The burning of witches went hand in hand with the necklacing in the PWV, in the Gauteng region. People in Gauteng were necklaced because the authorities were doing nothing, when maybe those perpetrators were brought in to court. I think even it’s the same with witchcraft. You find that the ... The Truth Commission has heard evidence before of attacks on exile South Africans in neighbouring states. The attack on Father Michael Lapsley in Zimbabwe, the murder of Jackie Quinn, and others in Lesotho in 1987. On Tuesday a remarkable survivor told of the bloody South African raid on Maseru in ... I was very ignorant, I didn’t know what I was coming to but it was a very crucial time in South Africa’s history and many people were emigrating. And here was I, arriving, very innocent, knowing very little about South Africa. Did I hear a comment from Cape Town? Did you come in Mr. Mzizi? May I have a quick word from you before I go to Donald Woods? // I feel that the process is one sided in that even if probably everyone should have been invited, whether these has been actually engineered by ANC. We did not oppose ... I first got to hear about Jeff Benzien in the eighties when he was torturing people and they were untouchable. I mean, you couldn’t ask them questions related to it, you could do nothing. There were three or four photographers and it happened very quickly. One of the judges asked if anybody had a ... When she arrived in the room she questioned us, why we allowed a white priest to sleep with us. We did not approve of that and then she asked Stompie why was Stompie selling the people? Stompie disagreed with that kind of information and then she started hitting us with fists, one by one. After ... So in 1974 Boraine joined the then Progressive Party and swopped the pulpit for Parliament. // ‘I look for that turning of the corner, that movement away, to take a new direction in South Africa, which will give us hope for the future. I believe that the people of South Africa are ready for that; ... It was the worst of it, where people are not allowed to stay with his wife. They said when they are married that you will be separated by death, but they are separated by the police. So they are the people who know about what happened that evening. Why don’t they come out truly and tell the whole truth, because they are still lying and they let their lawyers lead them what to say and what not to say. How can we believe such people? How can we reconcile with people who are not ... Even if they didn’t call it the final solution, one has to look at the facts. How many black people were killed in the process of either struggling against apartheid and so on? How many black people died as a result of hunger? How many were disadvantaged in so many ways and so deprived of all ... It was very difficult to get into Trust Feed after 1988, when from detention I came to live in Pietermaritzburg as a displacee. Other people could go, I couldn’t go. I couldn’t go because Gabela and Nxumalo did not want me there. They believed that if I came back then the UDF will thrive once ... ... in central Pretoria. It was a devastating blast. 19 People died and 40 were injured. The ANC claimed responsibility. Shortly before, they had warned the South African government to remove military installations from civilian areas. Many of the victims were civilians although the ANC stress ... ... formed part of one such a death commando at Northern Transvaal Security Police head quarters: Brigadier Jack Cronje, Captain Jacques Hechter and Warrant Officer Paul van Vuuren. The other member of their team was Joe Mamasela; he has turned state witness against his colleagues and is therefore ... ... to talk to ANC activist and father of three Skumbuzo Ngwenya. Skumbuzo worked with Peter at the Pietermaritzburg Agency for Christians Social Awareness or PACSA. They were having a Saturday night dinner at a local restaurant with a group of ... It is very important for this event to be placed in history because it is one of the past activities that led to the existence of our new dispensation. It all started because Pondo people striked the way that we did. … a commission was set up led by Mr. Abraham coming from Pretoria, concerned as ... The skull is his daughter’s, Phila Portia Ndwandwe, 24 when she died. An Umkhonto we Sizwe commander in Natal; mother of baby Thabang, born in Swaziland in 1987. In October 1988 Ndwandwe was abducted from Manzini to Pietermaritzburg. The people who sold her out were comrades. Her abductors: four ... |
