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people's warExplanation Showing 861 to 880 of 1000 First Page•Previous Page 40 •41 •42 •43 •44 •45 •46 •47 •48 Next Page•Last PageSophiatown was razed to the ground as if to erase the memory of what could have been and in its place came ‘Triomf’, ‘triumph,’ victory. The sterile suburban streets that emerged were indeed seen as a triumph for white rule. The spirit of Sophiatown was broken, its people dispersed. But in ... Mr van Zyl, 63 stab wounds were inflicted on the four people you murdered on the night of the 27th 1985. Do you agree with the District Surgeon’s report with that? // I cannot disagree with that Mr Chairman. // Do you agree that the 63 stab wounds is evidence of barbaric conduct? // Mr ... The Commission also pressed the policemen on their apparent lack of thoroughness in all investigations relating to Madikizela-Mandela. // Could you tell me why further efforts weren’t taken to perhaps try and locate more witnesses or other evidence to corroborate the information that you had ... It’s our job as religious people, if I may be bold to say so, the job of all of us to try to apply the antidotes. This TRC has become famous throughout the world because of the horror which has unfolded in the testimony so many months before you. There’s no one who’s listened in on the radio, ... I’m glad that our generation could call the disease by a name. That if something like this ever happened again that our children or their children need not go through the same hell we did. Remember this PTSD did not only break people – it broke families and households. It caused death. It ... Before you can have a permit to be in Cape Town, you must be here in Cape Town for the last fifteen years and worked for one employer for ten years, or be 15 years in the area. // So the number of people who could qualify to have a pass that entitled them to be in the urban areas were limited, very ... One needn’t even be a Calvinist, if you live in a country like South Africa there is no way in which you cannot be cognizant of the frailty and the evil of people all around you and how you become part of that. It remains however a sad fact that we have to admit that the historic struggle of the Afrikaner for freedom and self-realisation did not bring about the sensitivity that was needed in order to understand the same motivations and concerns when they came from black people. Perhaps the worst of our ... Well it certainly seems as if the Truth Commission process is gaining momentum. A lot of people who felt that the Truth Commission concentrated too much on the sad stories of victims and was not getting to the real story of our sordid past must be changing their minds. The Inkatha Freedom Party was ... Let’s turn our attention now to the Amnesty hearings in East London this past week. Young people play a large role in the transformation of our country. In the 1970s the young lions took to the streets to fight Bantu education. In the 1980s we heard the cry, ‘no education before liberation.’ ... In terms of our history it was also felt again that the children need to know the history of this place and in that respect the exhibition can be continued and be expanded. More people need to be drawn into writing the history of Oudtshoorn so that children can go and know that Oudtshoorn wasn’t ... Right, final question, Gail. // The bottom line is that people need material reparation out of this process. OK, every time you go into dusty dorpies you see that people don’t have work, they don’t have homes, they’re not getting decent education. There’s major tension in your Commission ... We have asked the Minister of Justice and he has agreed to our request that the Amnesty Committee should be enlarged. This is in order to ensure that all the applications are dealt with by our Committee. We hope that it will be able to have finished its work at best at end of this year. It just ... I found her lying dead and her stomach was big and her mouth was wide open and her eyes were open as well. // And Sibusiso ran and went to the bridge next to Luzeke. That is where they got him when he was running away from them. // It was after my son’s death, the impi was coming for the second ... ‘Kaffir! Waar’s jou pas?’ [Where’s your pass?] // ’17 745 741 people arrested.’ These people wanted to know is it a male or a female that you are carrying, the child. But before they could see that it’s a boy they pulled this child by the foot and they hit this child against the wall and he cracked his skull. ... And we hope to bring you some straight answers in our programme next Sunday. Our team will also be in Upington and Thohoyandouthis week. We look forward to your company next Sunday evening. Good ... I’d like to emphasise that we’ll always listen and try as much as possible to meet the needs of the people. But what we are going to do is to translate those needs in a way that’s going to be viable for the government and in a way that’s going to help the national healing of the ... Mister Mitchell, are you now desirous of making amends? // Yes I am. Although it may be impossible to do it, but I am desirous of that. // You’ve become a Christian and understand the value of forgiveness. Will you let us have your thoughts on that? // Yes I understand that forgiveness does not ... ‘The Swazi people have insured that the diamond jubilee is going to be something to remember’ // On TV most things about the year 1981 appeared hunky-dory. // ‘The problems of being overweight are experienced not only by man. The world’s biggest puff adder in captivity has just heard that ... |
