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people's warExplanation Showing 801 to 820 of 1000 First Page•Previous Page 37 •38 •39 •40 •41 •42 •43 •44 •45 Next Page•Last PageQueenstown in the Eastern Cape is more or less the same size as Kroonstad, but the stories the Truth Commission heard there were very different. This is Mlungisi cemetery where 11 victims of the 1985 Queenstown massacre lie at rest. The trouble began with a consumer boycott against white businesses ... 2000 Years ago the southern part of the African continent was inhabited by hunter-gatherer peoples, the Khoi and the Bushmen. Slowly moving down from further Northern Africa into these parts were several groups of farmers called the Bantu. To the people of other continents Africa was unknown until ... Ethel Ntuli was supported during the hearing by her son, Mbusi. Even though her other son, Victor escaped death by not being home during the massacre Ntuli believes that it was the IFP who finally killed him. No inquest was ever held into his death. // In November last year 18 people were arrested ... They may well be interested parties who would have been or who even did try to prevail upon De Kock not to talk. I am more than satisfied on reports that I have that there are clearly interested parties who would have preferred that he does not talk. He is now giving evidence under oath. He gives ... Sophie. // Commissioner Ntsebeza, still on the issue of transparency, will the Commission reveal the name of the spy that the five policemen spoke about, because that is in the public interest, the right to know also has to be respected and the constitution. // Now, the first thing that I must ask ... ‘I see the TRC as a lion without teeth because there is nothing being done to perpetrators, so it has no importance at all. It is a waste of money because the victims end up nowhere.’ // ‘TRC brought more light; it revealed what the nation was not going to know.’ // ‘It’s quite good to ... It is impossible to suggest, as some have tried, that there is a collective culpability on the part of the business sector. // I believe that we have consistently shown that we did not support the system of apartheid. // Chairperson, the culture was that the organisation stood for change. I mention ... Why did this happen? You raise it, you ask the question, you’re critical about yourself, you concede that what you did fell short of what you should have done in the circumstances. But why? // The overwhelming majority of attorneys in private practice were white males as you set it out in ... ... well maybe once or twice, in Brandfort. I have immense admiration for her and there is no question at all that she was a tremendous stalwart of our struggle, an icon of liberation who was banned, harassed, under surveillance, banished. With a husband away serving a life sentence she ... He again said today he doesn’t owe anybody an apology. He stands by the policemen and soldiers who killed people in the name of the previous government. So he makes no apology. 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 ... ‘Intelezi’ is a Zulu word which defines a substance smeared by warriors on their bodies before they go into battle. It has been a custom of the African people long before King Shaka’s time. It can only be given out by inyangas [herbalists] and is associated with power. Some people call it ... The National Party made its submission and the former state president made his submission. He said actions of an unlawful nature were never authorized, they were either bona fide misinterpretations of lawful instructions or they were bona fide actions as a result of people who were overzealous or ... Brothers of Tokoza played an important role in youth here in Tokoza why does it make them angry that we smoked drugs, which as Gents we smoke for courage. That made them very angry, but they understood our situation, because to handle a gun, shoot and defend is not something you can just do ... Thank you for watching. Next week we report on the Human Rights Violations Committee hearings in Mooiriver in KwaZulu-Natal and we bring you a documentary on the young people who were victims of our conflict. Until next Sunday, good night. APLA then was fighting, returning a bullet with a bullet, protecting the Africans in Azania and the PAC was busy using other tactics so that you people in the government could hear the cries of the children of Azania. If your ears couldn’t listen, APLA decided to take guns to open the ears that ... It was a white person wearing balaclavas. Round the eyes I could see and the nose was a sharp nose and it wasn’t that of our black people. Friday was a more joyful day for the Biko family. Thousands of people packed the streets of East London to remember the life of Steve Biko. President Nelson Mandela said he’d never met Biko but regarded him as one of the greatest sons of South Africa. Singer Peter Gabriel also paid tribute to one ... He was an organizer in the Pebco. He helped the people. I remember one time there is the people who have no place to stay in those shacks far away, like Dan Qeqe. So they take those people to here in Rio hall here and then he’d always cook soup for those people, every day they are going to fetch ... |
