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people's warExplanation Showing 941 to 960 of 1000 First Page•Previous Page 42 •43 •44 •45 •46 •47 •48 •49 •50 Next Page•Last Page‘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 ... 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 ... ... who would serve in that Commission. Up until now Max I think the world at large would agree with me that only people who have been brought forward to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation are so-called ANC victims. None of other parties have been called forward. // But isn’t that ... Listen, let me tell you all the people, all they say, we must say sorry, we must say sorry. Are you sorry, are you sorry? And just to say I am sorry is an empty word. You know what I mean? Can you really be sorry? It’s the third time in my life that I meet you but sorry … I’m not the type of ... So that when I was born at Mzimkulu on a farm, I grew up there, I schooled there but my father was interested that we must not lose touch with Natal. So, most of my father’s children, including me, did most of their schooling in Natal so that we could not lose touch with our roots. That is why ... ... to even feel that we may have failed the victims by saying that there is an atmosphere in this country where reconciliation could take place. I am aware that our role as a Commission and with the presentation of the report to the president, how the president deals with the report is really ... ‘The Violated’ // On the 15th of April 1996, almost exactly two years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission took its seat for the first time in the East London City Hall. The road ahead was an unknown one. As Archbishop Desmond Tutu symbolically opened proceedings a solemn hymn swept ... ‘My deepest regret is that I failed Stompie that I was unable to protect him from the anarchy of those times and he was taken from my house and killed…’ // Who killed him? You are the one who killed Stompie. // ‘I am astounded that political loyalties could not stand a single test, that it ... Mtimkulu spent months in hospital recovering. In April 1992 he sued the minister of police for torturing and poisoning him. Two weeks later Siphiwo Mtimkulu and a friend, Topsy Madaka disappeared, they were never seen again. Mtimkulu must be dead, but he left something behind: a set of diaries. // ... The significance of the shoes that came from the grave, I think it elate all the doubts that one would have, because for now these things that we seek – people being exhumed – you don’t know really, really is this is the truth? But now, with a shred of evidence like what I saw, I’m ... As the life of the Truth Commission comes to an end we have to ask ourselves what role its activities have played in reconciling our nation. Throughout this programme you have seen amazing moments at hearings where people reached out to each other, forgave each other, embraced each other, moments ... Hello. Welcome to the Special Report. There were no hearings of the Truth Commission this past week. Instead, we focus on three issues very relevant to the Truth Commission process. We examine the concept of evil, we look at the death and destruction the South African armed forces had caused in ... ‘Ek wil ‘n beroep doen op die NG Kerk familie, dis die vier apartheids kerke, dat hulle sigbaarheid moet verleen aan die eenheid van Christus, nie vir mense nie, dat hulle sigbaarheid moet verleen aan die eenheid van Christus dat ons nie die volgende millennium in moet gaan as ‘n verdeelde ... After Nelson Mandela’s release and after the last political prisoners left Robben Island in 1991 there were many questions about the Island’s future. After much debate is has now been declared a National Monument and Museum. More than 250 people now make this trip across Table Bay every day to ... Why are you seeking to discredit people who I think honestly tried to come and give evidence? I think that for me that’s a problem. The second question I want to put to you is however you perceive the situation these were youngsters who congregated around you, you in fact took them along with you ... ‘Comrades, die dag is ‘n ander dag vir ons. Dit is ‘n seer dag vir ons wat onse mense in die verlede swaar getref het … wat sal vandag voor die hof verskyn. So comrades, ek sal laaik laat ons nie almal onder die bome staan nie. Ons moet saam wys dat ons het pyn van onse comrades wat in die ... It is perpetrated, we believe, by forces that are against the talks about peace. The violence is particularly connected with Inkatha and people are saying that openly. By early 1987 brutality of a different kind faced the Bongulethu community. // Something that stood out as quite horrific from this area, apart from many cases of police torture that were reported - in some cases, Supreme Court action was instituted; the large scale detentions without trial that ... For three months the little people, the ordinary citizens, have been showing their pain in public. It seemed for a while as if the Truth Commission was little more than group therapy for victims. It is becoming a new ball game now. Cynicism and mockery are making way for a realisation that the ... How many agents did you manage? // I suppose serious ones, about ten, and the casual ones maybe a lot more, up to 25 in total. You know I had a Spanish professor working for me who was a professor at Wits. I’m not prepared to tell you his name because it’s not the way I operate, but he worked ... |
