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people's warExplanation Showing 921 to 940 of 1000 First Page•Previous Page 42 •43 •44 •45 •46 •47 •48 •49 •50 Next Page•Last PageIt 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 ... What was it in our people or our history that made this ghastly practice possible and so popular? // There’s a whole process that leads finally to the brutality of the necklace as a method of murder. And that for me is actually what we should have recorded in the eighties and it never got ... It is difficult to see my brother in this … like this. I mean it’s hard, it’s hard. There’s nothing I can say at the moment. It’s hard. I cannot even think anymore. If you look at white people, what they have done to our brothers, it’s bad. It’s really bad. Were the infiltrators armed? // Definitely. Both groups, as you know it was two incidents, two separate incidents. Both groups were armed. // No there were no firearms on them. There was absolutely no firearms found on these people and nothing were handed to me. It was terror, Stalin was paranoid and he supposed that almost all foreigners are spies and many people in his own country also, he cannot trust them. Afterwards two truth commissioners expressed their deep disappointment with the National Party attitude. // To make that apology and then to negate it by the way that … I feel sorry for him, I mean maybe he didn’t know, but … I told him that people were killed, we went and told them. I mean ... 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 ... Ngxobongwana, a former UDF supporter had been arrested a year earlier and many believe he was turned to work for the state during his imprisonment. By 1986 Ngxobongwana was the main witdoek leader in Crossroads, now working against his former Comrades. Their conflict came to a head when the state ... ‘Botshabelo 5:00 pm’ // It was very important to me the actual relation although people say I proclaimed myself, but I will say to the TRC what’s very important as the workers leader, because I was working for Transport and General Workers’ Union at that time, which the affiliate of COSATU ... Derby-Lewis provided Janusz Walus with a pistol needed for the assassination. // Well the whole objective was to plunge the country into a situation where as a result of the chaos which we anticipated would occur as a result of the assassination that people on the right would be inspired to ... The type of warder who was in charge of us while we were in jail. I mean, there were people, you heard some of the stories he told about the distorted kind of humour which they had and how easy it was for them to resort to brutalities. Now these are human beings, these are people like you and me; ... 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 ... ... 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 ... The CCB was a good organisation. It did fantastic work. It penetrated the inner circles of the ANC. We prevented a black Christmas in South Africa. We prevented ANC people from coming in and planting bombs and maiming people. Remember they always acted against the civilian sector. And now we have ... ... change our mind about that. The catharsis that has taken place for white and black alike, men and women, old, young, seems to have done something towards the reconciling work that we are committed to. But I think you’re absolutely right, I think we’re being very slow on the whole question of ... She lives with the memory of her grandson, with the pain she still sees in the eyes of those he left behind and with the words he wanted them to remember him by. // ‘I hurt so I can’t cry anymore. It’s driving me insane. God help me. Come down and speak my pain into people I love. Tell them ... Taking on a Coloured identity meant far more than just a change of name. To be a convincing Coloured meant giving up all vestiges of a former black identity. // The only thing that you had in mind now in order to get away from these claws that are haunting you as an African people, you had to give ... ... 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 ... … Followed them and told us that the smugglers had weapons in their car and that they were afraid that they would be robbed by these people. They then decided to eliminate these people by shooting them. During this discussion it was decided that it would create a problem if it was mentioned that ... |
