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Now tell us what caused the division between you and the Youth League? // I have already indicated that I was patrolling at night because I was working. Sometimes members of the SDU would be patrolling during the day and people would be looting spaza shops, the taxis would be shot at. If you are a ...

... on a gross human rights violation of the past that did not involve physical violence: Bantu Education. And we bring you a special appeal from Archbishop Desmond Tutu to soldiers, policemen, guerrillas and self defence units to apply for amnesty in the next six days. Let’s visit the ...

I’ve met up with John earlier this year to try and understand why he did that and how that affected him. I went to visit him in Johannesburg, he still wears camouflaged uniforms, the room where he was living was covered with camouflaged netting, he’s dropped out of society, he’s on drugs, ...

I’ve met up with John earlier this year to try and understand why he did that and how that affected him. I went to visit him in Johannesburg, he still wears camouflaged uniforms, the room where he was living was covered with camouflaged netting, he’s dropped out of society, he’s on drugs, ...

... of the Eastern Boulevard they said were gonna come over our little house. We moved out, and we went out to Bonteheuwel and my family couldn’t accept that, especially my mother and my father who both worked in town. They actually rejected the whole idea but there was nothing they could do ...

On the first day of the Mdansane hearings this past week the Human Rights Violations Committee paid a tribute visit to the Egerton Railway Station, scene of the bloody massacre that took place in 1983 to say a short remembrance prayer for those who untimely lost their lives for supporting a just ...

... was during 1986, I was working with my contacts from Botswana and Kenya. One of my contacts by the name of Ata Mabena, he was a person that used to visit in Botswana. One day I met him at a place where we used to meet at the border. He gave me information that he met one ANC member who told him ...

... was the home and shop of Sam Chan also referred to as Kahn. This week Wouter Mentz sought amnesty for his role in the murders of Chand, his wife, two children and a night ...

In Johannesburg anyone who carried a pass would have had to visit the hated pass law office at 80 Albert Street. Here naked men would have to wait in queues for a medical examination before their passes would be endorsed. Part of this fitness examination was a public inspection of the penis.

In Johannesburg anyone who carried a pass would have had to visit the hated pass law office at 80 Albert Street. Here naked men would have to wait in queues for a medical examination before their passes would be endorsed. Part of this fitness examination was a public inspection of the penis.

Snyman and Du Plessis were not there when the three were executed. The sequence of the executions was reported by Van Zyl who says after their abduction the men were taken to Post Chalmers, a disused police station in Cradock. The next day, May the ninth they were fed, drugged, shot dead and their ...

... many places there was Two-sticks, Ndofire, Jamaica, Shabangu Mnyane, those from Fire all those things. I’ll say we’d all meet when playing soccer between different teams, eventually to combine forces, still living at Phenduka. It then turned out that we did not trust each other, so we then ...

... 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 visit the ...

At the University of Pretoria Du Plessis, Grobbelaar and Van Wyk joined the right wing ‘Afrikaner Studentefront.’ // We decided that Mr. Nelson Mandela’s meeting on campus would not go ahead. We decided to disrupt the meeting with violence.

... and we go have something, he says Kentucky or steak or something and then he says, no you’ve done well and everything was OK and then maybe at two or I don’t know what time in the morning he’ll take you back to the cell again. And the next day at about five, six he’ll come again. What ...

... was obstinate. The Truth Commission was the only way for him to tell his story. // It’s for instance in a village where there’s a single shop. Where you’ve got no other alternative except far away in town usually you frequent that village ...

... the planning of the Seychelles operation, when he came to the TRC earlier this year he shared no new light on his or the military’s involvement. According to Dolinschek, while he was imprisoned -naked and in chains, senior members of NIS and the South African Government came to Mahé to ...

... names for the same thing. The hated document that determined the life of every black South African for decades, where they could sleep, live, work, visit and for how long. The main aim of the pass laws was to control the movement of black South Africans to the cities. The idea was to allow just ...

... has made a decisive turn. The emphasis is shifting from ordinary people telling their sad stories to perpetrators giving their version of the past. Two weeks from now, two police generals, Basie Smit and Krappies Engelbrecht will appear at a closed hearing of the Truth Commission. They were ...

Then Bennet Sibaya told his story. With his friend, Mazibuko he was going to visit an old girlfriend in Gugulethu, but he got lost. // I saw these children coming. I thought they had pipes in their hands, however when they were closer I realized that those were not pipes but weapons. They then put ...