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people's warExplanation ... are individuals and communities who suffered in a specific way as a result of gross human rights violations. What is the obligation of the nation towards these people? What forms of memory, rehabilitation and reparation are reasonably ... She never got a chance to go to school and get educated just like other people. The life of people here in the Free State, more especially in the farms that belonged to the Boers, and these Boers were members of the AWB on the farms. ... National Congress, the ANC, to co-ordinate student activities on a national level in order to promote the creation and extension of the people's war strategy. These discussions would also among others focus on a planned national protest actions, boycotts, and so ... He says he had to be involved in the interrogation of Biko because he had already questioned Jones who implicated Biko in his own statement, Exhibit H, wherein he stated that he had overheard a conversation between Titi and Biko about possible ways and means of producing the pamphlet in question. ... MR GOBODO: So, you are trying to say they were not Xhosa people, do you think they were speaking like Zulu or Sotho? What we have got, is what we have picked up from the press or stories what people said, you know what happened to our brother, do you know what happened to your son... That is it. Applicant Lieta stated before the Committee that the Motsuenyane Commission wrongly used the name Piliso in its report. They should have referred to him as the person who used excessive force in Lusaka. The Committee doesn’t find it necessary to refer in more detail to the Motsuenyane report. ... So now Mr Zuma and the other people later, I mean further informed us that they were busy with the investigation, because they said Joy Hayden, according to them, was a plant of the regime who had penetrated the movement and it was later on that they discovered that she was actually a plant and ... This incident relates to the matter which became known as the Allan Boesak investigation. People were interrogated at Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban. Activists whose names could be recalled by the applicant were Allan Boesak, C. Ntinto, J. Manuel, S. Gunn, T. Yengeni and D. Omar. Anyway, to cut it short, if the deceased is who we think he is, then we were fighting on opposing sides, we were fighting a war that was caused by ideologies and fanned by politicians. I think I was about four months old when the Nationalist Government came to power, I had nothing to do with the ... "The acts of the Applicants in SWA in 1989 were not part of the conflicts of the past as intended in the TRC Act. These acts were not directed against South African opponents, e.g. the liberation groups or political organisations opposing the then government. The Appellants went to SWA to lend ... This is a person who is, of all people, able to provide all the evidence you require, and you will be able to listen to all that. The press has conveyed an image of this project which is far-removed from the truth, and they also must hear, for once and for all, what this project was about. ... The distance could have been about two houses and they shone a torch on me and when I tried to face these people or caspar, they stared shooting towards me. I do not know what they threw at me, I thought it was a tear gas canister at first and I continued to run, and I ran past my home. ... CHAIRPERSON: The defensive one would have been - you were of the opinion that they would have killed the people handling them? MR MBULI: Yes, Sir, in "expantiating" on this one, as I've earlier mentioned that no, as a unit, the thing which I came with this name, it was because of Mr van der Eck appeared on the TV, that no he wants to see the people who were involved in the laying of the mines. I didn't know that no, Mr ... Thank you very much. There is more room, but I think the people outside, Thembeka if you could just tell the people outside there is more room and as soon as the witness is done with her testimony, they can be invited in, but while someone is giving testimony I don't think it is proper for people ... We adjourned the matter yesterday because we were informed that they had been told the matter would be heard today and we felt it wrong to proceed in their absence. They are not here today. The representatives of the TRC have gone to Botshabelo to find them and have been able to make contact ... MR SIZANI: Mr Chairperson, I was accused by our headman, Mr Malangeni Makapela, he accused me of burning down his home. On that day I was at home. I heard that the house was being burnt down. I saw flames in that house. My uncle said that I must stay at home, because people were gathering ... With regard to the incident which took place at Mazabekweni, we are of the opinion that there is insufficient evidence to link the Applicant to the killings which he heard off over the radio. There is no evidence that the persons killed included the two people who shot at the Applicant and his ... After I got out of jail, I live in fear. I do not want to be with anyone. I did not understand at my age that I was not a criminal as I was detained - I thought a criminal. Then people would explain to me that when you are actually detained - you are not being charged of any criminal offence. I ... |