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people's warExplanation Showing 961 to 980 of 1000 First Page•Previous Page 42 •43 •44 •45 •46 •47 •48 •49 •50 Next Page•Last PageGriffiths Mxenge, did you do that because you were under duress? // Yes, it was in 1981. // Yes, and in 1985, in this matter, you got involved because you were acting under duress. // Yes if I had not killed these people I was going to be killed. It’s a fact. More than 10 askaris were killed for ... There can be no doubt, whatsoever that this murder was a grave crime and that it was a brutal crime. We won’t persuade you otherwise. // Brian Currin, the lawyer for Diale and Makgale argued that despite the gravity of their act they met the Commission’s requirements for amnesty. // Their ... If somebody puts his arms up he’s actually giving up, he’s giving himself up and he says that I am defenceless. But the police kept on. He was my only son. // Tony Weaver, then deputy news editor of the Cape Times, enlarges on a police cover up. // And unfortunately for them, Chris Bateman who ... As the government detains people so too do their families join our organisation, join the Detainee Parents Support Committee. I was at no stage aware of any unit carrying out assassinations. The Vlakplaas unit as it was explained to me had a totally different objective, a totally different field of activity, I was never part as I’ve said of any decision to assassinate or murder anybody. I totally distance myself from ... I think it was about two weeks ago when we were able to put the final dot on our Reparations Policy, because that has been worrying me quite a bit. I was very concerned that perpetrators were getting amnesty and in a sense to be seen to be going free and victims were still suffering and without any ... ... Tavern. When we arrived at the tavern Makebu had pulled up on the ‘wrong’ side of the road. When he stopped I jumped out of the car and ran towards the entrance of the tavern armed with an AK47 rifle and I opened fire immediately, indiscriminately, aiming to kill or injure as many people as ... We were forbidden from burying our own without the permit of the oppressor. To minister to our own people was turned either into a criminal offence or an act for which one would be labelled as schismatic from the church catholic. Today we wish to offer an unreserved apology to those who felt that ... Leratodi Ikaneng is one of the few people who lived to tell the tale of Jerry Richardson and the Mandela United Football Club’s murder sprees. // I thought I was going to be shot. But at a later stage I discovered that they do not have a gun. Amongst these men, there was another one who was ... We had come to the end of our tether. We’d been involved in that kind of thing seeing patients, seeing people being killed for 12 months already and all because I wanted to go and heal people and not kill them. And we went to see the local psychiatrist who was resident in Oshakati and the major ... In the same year that the Ribeiro’s were assassinated, in 1986, Piet Ntuli was minister of the interior in the former homeland of KwaNdebele. He was put there by the South African government but then they lost control over him. As Jack Cronje tells it Ntuli became leader of Imbokodo, a ... The suffering of the South African people may be over but the psychological damage will have an effect for a long time to come. In tonight’s programme we focus on post traumatic stress disorder. We visit the vast, peaceful plains of the Karoo where the Truth Commission encountered unexpected ... My husband was active in Pebco and active in politics. The Pebco was trying to solve the community’s problems and there were a lot of problems at that moment. And he was involved too much in politics. He used to tell me about his father; his fighting for the rights of the people and the ... But then there are those who feel the need to ask for forgiveness for those they have wronged. // Forgiveness does not come cheaply; it’s something that comes deeply from the heart. And I can just ask the people that were involved directly or indirectly and who have been affected by this case to ... I used to joke. People pay lots of money to be in that sort of a paradise island and we are complaining. It was perfect, so one morning airplane lands and says everybody go home, so we went home. René , though he didn’t spell it out, but he got his money from South Africa, because that was ... ‘Day Four Thursday 27 November 1997’ // Dr Nthato Motlana who had been a friend and family doctor of the Mandela’s since the fifties was one of the first people asked to intervene in the growing crisis. When he went to see Madikizela-Mandela for the first time, Stompie Seipei was already ... Many people took surnames when you knew the man is black because you went to school together. We grew up together. But now the man is a Pietersen or a Hugo or he simply made himself coloured. But as the official photographer of the TRC George Hallet’s work has to go beyond photographing the main players in the drama of the Truth Commission. // I think the TRC also wants to make clear that besides what’s happening on the stage there’s also a process that takes place in the offices ... ... of Law and Order in 1988. // ”Ek wil waarsku dat die regering en die Suid Afrikaanse polisie geen radikale optrede sal duld nie.” [I’m warning that the government and the SAP will not tolerate radical actions] // The former ministers were called to the Truth Commission because they ... I was very upset about that, looking at a man who pulled a trigger to kill my son. And there is no evidence they are giving that Siphiwo did … there was no reason for them to do that, I can say. They should have prosecuted Siphiwo. // No, no forgiveness at all. // Why not? // Because they killed ... |
