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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 PageHe does all these wrong things. Walks up and down; chases people. He hits people, when he goes off his head, then he hits people. He walks up and down, he does not sleep at all. Even if we take him to hospital he does not sleep there. In the middle of the night he comes home. We were woken up by stones which were thrown to the house, we had to wake up. I peeked through the window and I saw many people and I could recognize some of them, because they live in the same street. I also went to the back window and then I saw one with a petrol gallon, it is Maqotinala Xonti. I ... Land of fun, sun, and Sol Kerzner, but something was wrong in the state of Bophuthatswana. // Bophuthatswana was the National Party’s shining example to people of the world that Verwoerd’s dream of separate development could work. Established in 1972 this patchwork of seven bits of land was ... In Bongulethu kitskonstabel action ranged from revenge killings to indiscriminate shooting sprees. Between September 1987 and January 1988 six people were wounded. On January 10, 1988 another mini-massacre took place. Three people: Selvyn Botha, Johnny Carelse and Soyisile Douse were shot and ... I just destroyed the people around me, my friends my family. And I think it’s enough now. ... much involved in the life of the young people in the Durban circuit, the superintendent minister was Reverend Skakana then and the two circuitry stewards Mr. Mdolo and Mr. Masebo, they appealed to the conference that they would like me, my first appointment, to be in Durban so that I could ... Winnie said she visited Dr Asvat with Katiza on the 29th of December 1988, before driving to Brandfort. But this medical card from the visit was stamped the 30th of December. People who could have confirmed the card’s accuracy and importance were not subpoenaed. One was Dr Asvat’s brother ... Karl Weber had stopped off for a drink at the Highgate Hotel in East London on the first of May 1991. A man with a balaclava stormed into the room and opened fire with an AK47. Five people were killed and many injured. Weber lost his left arm and most use of his right arm. // My life was changed ... Gideon Niewoudt is now on trial in the Port Elizabeth Supreme Court for murder. // The Motherwell bombing case. The state alleges that he was involved in the murder of other policemen. // At the Truth Commission hearing this week Niewoudt was once again implicated in torture. Because of the court ... The Ciskei puppets skilfully undermined all those litigations by arresting and detaining the lawyers who were defending those people or some who actually had civil claims against the Ciskei government. Of course when they were told, it was interpreted in a political way that you are taking the ... Not all self defence unit action was this benign. In the townships around Johannesburg self defence units were involved in day to day combat with amongst others Inkatha members and the internal stability unit. Many people lost their lives in the ever spiralling violence and for many the self ... For me it came as a huge surprise, even to be nominated because there was a long public selection and nomination process. I think 3 or 400 people were nominated by various organizations. I was nominated by the Human Rights Committee and it came as a great surprise that I should have been nominated ... Let’s come back to Johannesburg. The question now of equal treatment, of one sidedness. Let’s take one part of that. I’m speaking to both of you. Should we have treated or should the Truth Commission have treated perpetrators of gross human rights violations on the apartheid government’s ... Well, this is then the end of the road for the Special Report. This is the 87th time I sat here introducing our programme to you. You saw so much of me some people might have thought this was my programme. It wasn’t. The Special Report was a very special team effort of the most hard working and ... This episode starts with the Amnesty Committee hearings held in Johannesburg (7 to 11 April) and covers the amnesty applications of two paramilitary right wingers, Leo Froneman and Peter Harmse, for the 1993 Bronkhorstspruit bomb attack and that of Daveyton Youth Congress member, Phineas Ndlovu, ... ... apparently, when the Buckaneers and the Camberers came in, most of the people were assembled on the parade ground. And, they caught them totally unaware and literally hundreds of people died on the parade ground. Any large external operation that the South African Defence Force did required ... ... into Natal command. The information given was that Natal command off-duty personal go to this particular areas and also people from the C R Swarts police barracks. // In this time of truth and reconciliation, isn’t it time that you named your commanders who gave you this order. Why ... 53 year old Terreblanche has himself applied for amnesty for stashing dangerous weapons and explosives. His also asking for amnesty for the 1978 feathering and tarring of university professor Floors van Jaarsveld who questioned the sanctity of the vow of Blood River. Terreblanche also wants amnesty ... ... but I don’t need to be noisy about it and I think that’s also a very big and important strength. My daughter gives to me a very strong sense of warmth and I don’t want this to be a gender thing, I don’t want it to be understood as a gender issue. But there’s a sensitivity about her, you ... I think that the most difficult, and it’s at the same time a low and a high, is the people who testify before us, especially the women, the aunties that came for the first time to tell their stories, who were thankful for the opportunity that the state paid attention – that moves me – that ... |
