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... a truth commission in Zimbabwe after their liberation. This coming week there will be two days of hearings about human rights abuses in the health sector with case studies like the torture, treatment and death of Steven Biko. We’ll meet against next Sunday. Goodnight. ...

Good evening. Tonight we bring you full reports on the drama at the Pebco Three amnesty hearing and the special business sector hearing. Our last item is a special documentary on South Africa’s involvement in the failed 1981 coup in the Seychelles. We begin in Port Elizabeth. In May 1985, three ...

The fact that whites have been advantaged within the private sector is undeniable.

... part of the entire TRC’s work, but obviously the Reparation Committee has input to give on those issues as well, particularly around the health sector, prisons and education. ...

After leaving Port Elizabeth Dr Orr practiced in a range of health sector jobs, settling ultimately into a senior administrative post at the University of Cape Town.

The Attorneys-General agreed on two things at the legal sector hearing this week. Firstly, they had not served a political master and secondly that they had been as deceived as the generals and cabinet ministers were.

In stark contrast really to what have taken place in the business sector hearings where on the whole you found people in a self justifying mode. Here, extraordinarily, virtually every single one of those who testified from the different faith communities and the different Christian denominations ...

The fact that whites have been advantaged within the private sector is undeniable. Now with the advent of apartheid, I wasn’t born yet, but especially the Afrikaner had a couple of simple choices. One either agreed or you emigrated or you try to oppose the system from the inside. For quite a long ...

strict rule of confidentiality that even the staff can’t speak to the press, no one knows even what cases might be investigated and the journalism sector is usually much more limited, constrained, often threatened themselves, if they’re coming out of a very dark history. So that there is not ...

In spite of a strongly worded appeal from Archbishop Tutu the country’s current and former top judges declined to appear at this week’s legal sector hearing. Instead, five of the country’s current top residing judges sent a written submission to the TRC in which they admitted that the law and ...

This week the Truth Commission will hold a special hearing on the role of the legal sector in our past and the Amnesty Committee will hear the application of an MK soldier in Kimberley and those of three APLA soldiers responsible for the bloody 1993 attack on the Heidelberg Tavern in Cape Town. ...

We’ve come to the end of tonight’s programme. If you want to know more about the Truth Commission please visit their website on the internet at www.truth.org.za or you can talk to the Special Report at e-mail address truth@sabc.co.za or fax us at 714 6254. We meet again next Sunday evening. ...

... of schools of human rights at the universities there and they’re all very interested in hearing about the process, particularly within the health sector and what has happened. But I am a South African through and through and I will come back. I stuck it out through the eighties and I certainly ...

... in South Africa. We prevented ANC people from coming in and planting bombs and maiming people. Remember they always acted against the civilian sector. And now we have disbanded the CCB because a small element of two or three people possibly stepped out of line. And now we disband this ...

It is impossible to suggest, as some have tried, that there is a collective culpability on the part of the business sector. // I believe that we have consistently shown that we did not support the system of apartheid. // Chairperson, the culture was that the organisation stood for change. I mention ...

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.

It 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 ...

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 ...

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.

What went on in the minds of ordinary policemen of the previous order who maimed and killed activists like animals? At the Pietermaritzburg Truth Commission hearings this past week we were given some insight into this mindset when three policemen applied for amnesty. We also visit Cradock on ...