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states of emergencyExplanation The country was plunged into the dark abyss of hit squads and extra legal state terror, bannings, army occupations and further states of emergency - a history which we trust the TRC will piece together bit by bloody bit, so that the jigsaw puzzle of what happened can finally be completed. ... The 80's were horrifying. I was now working, The Post had been closed down after this strike and The Sowetan had taken its place. Successive States of Emergency reduced our ability to report. The Argus head office instructed us to check all sensitive stories with lawyers before publishing ... ... two periods within that, the Soweto uprising of 1976 and then subsequently what we term the national uprising from 1984 to 1989 which triggered off states of emergency and our estimates are on the basis of cross-checking and compiling of various sources, numerous sources including certain ... ... of the Minister of Law and Order, I went to him and said "Sir, this is what I have been told, this is what has been said to me". This officer states that he was in a situation of emergency, this officer states that he informed interested parties and for him as the Minister who had to have ... These forms of cruelty were not simply experienced by women but also by children. During the States of Emergency girls as young as fourteen were detained, tortured, beaten and teargassed. inherit a wasteland. Those were the days of states of emergency, emergency In the declarations of the states of emergency the concept was reinforced by the forces being given full powers of search and seizure. It led to confusion about the allegiance of prison health care staff and their clinical independence. At prisons an entire infrastructure is in place to provide ... ... Whereby legal officers, judges, magistrates, drafters of legislation actually assisted in drafting such Draconian measures actively sustained states of emergency and the abuses of torture in detention which went with them. Here we talking about a culture of impunity not just on the part of ... ADV NYOKA: Ja, the reason why it was sometime after 85, because there were two States of Emergency. One from July to November, four months the leadership was detained, and then there was another one in 1986, a second State of Emergency. So, there was not much activity. ... discuss the security actions, which was regarded as important for the security and the management of the State. The institution and the relief of States of emergency was also decided on special meetings. Meetings of the SSC were also attended by the permanent members as determined by statute. ... In both states of emergency the State President saw fit to promulgate three provisions seeking to maintain law and order without law. was renewed in '86. I think there was also a partial state of emergency declared before '85, in which only certain districts were declared to be in states of ... Despite the situations created by the states of emergency, the security situation within the country, still deteriorated and this then forced the government to take drastic steps with the aim to stop the revolutionary onslaught. Rabie Commission in this regard. Despite new legislation the intensity of the revolutionary war intensified rapidly up to the mid-eighties when the states of emergency were used to give the security forces more ... ... recognition for the union. All the African workers in this factory were fired, and it led to enormous conflict in this region. In addition the states of emergency were used almost exclusively as a means of attacking the UDF by the police. Inkatha was able to flout the emergency regulations ... The Security Forces had to operate increasingly within a framework of states of emergency, far-reaching security legislation, underground activities and unconventional strategies. They had to give operational interpretation to broadly framed decisions, aimed at firm and effective action against ... MR LEWIN: Mr de Jager, I'm interested in the role of the states of emergency. Did you as superintendent or colonel JUDGE PILLAY: 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, basically the whole of the '80's. People were dying, people were being necklaced, bombs were going off, states of emergency were being declared. Were you unaware of that? 2A was a time when defence force manpower was overstretched as a result of the state of emergency, the successive states of emergency, so it's not as though one had the ease really to - to pluck out a unit simply like that, but certainly, you could have used elements of it in that role. In an attempt to promote stability and relative peace the further instrument of the emergency regulations were introduced by the declaration of states of emergency and that was also made available to the security fraternity. At best this could only be preventative in the short term but it was ... |
