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... you we are teachers and we’ve had enough.’ // But it was not mistrust that started a war in which thousands would die. The release of Nelson Mandela and the unbanning of the ANC in 1990 threw the political playing field open for the first time in South African history. ...

Thank you very much for your wonderful, wise words and that is the father I have always known in you. I’m hoping it is still the same. I will take this opportunity to say to the family of Dr Asvat how deeply sorry I am and to Stompie’s mother how deeply sorry I am. I have said so to her before ...

The drama that led to the death of Stompie Seipei started in late 1988 with the accusation that Methodist minister Paul Verryn was sexually abusing four young people who were running from the police. Katiza Cebekhulu said Madikizela-Mandela told him to claim that Verryn had raped him.

Do you want to respond or can I ask Professor Giliomee some more questions? // For me the issue is not whether the process … I mean I know that the process was intended so that the perpetrators would feel comfortable, that they should come forward, but then the question they should be asked is ...

... me a reason at all. What I did was to work on trust. // How did you get the message? // That came through Oliver Tambo. // And he said that Nelson Mandela wants this man out of South Africa. // Yes, and we worked on that ...

reaffirmed that the deeds committed in the name of apartheid were unjust, inhumane and immoral. We are now three years into the new order. President Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and others have called for the creation of a new morality, but what role has the Truth Commission played in the ...

legal processes would then follow as if there were an extradition treaty. But the Namibians nor anyone else for that matter have not asked President Mandela to make such a declaration. One should be forgiven for beginning to wonder if there is a political will in Windhoek or Pretoria to resolve ...

At the hearings of the TRC over the past year many horrid details emerged. We cannot fail to have been moved by the remorse of some perpetrators and the preparedness of victims to forgive. We cannot fail to have been astounded by their very modest appeals for their dignity to be restored, but this ...

Mrs. Mandela in fact threatened you gentlemen in this way. She was not prepared to heed your warnings and told you that she was going to announce that she was going to resign from the ANC. // That’s not true. // I seem to remember, we can refer to the document, at least in one meeting where I was ...

Finkie Msomi died when the Mandela Football Club attacked the home of her aunt, Dudu Chili. The attack was in retaliation for the death of one of the football club members.

... amnesty only for acts committed before 14 December 1993. But there was a lot of political violence between this date and the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as president. The PAC, the National Party and the Freedom Front campaigned for the cut-off date to be moved to this day, May 10 1994. The ...

... is an Afrikaans word and can be easily placed, replaced by a proper positive term: good neighbourliness. Who’s laughing? // I said to Mr. Mandela, don’t awaken the tiger in the Afrikaner and I’m afraid they are busy doing it. ...

... and the levels of repression with it. On the 28th of August thousands of people joined a march to Pollsmoor prison to demand the release of Nelson Mandela. For many this was their first taste of political activism. Some of them must have thought it a virtually risk free action because it was ...

... I’ve had to live without a father for 18 years. I hate to think of all those things that he’s missed in those years, from the release of Nelson Mandela in 1990 to South Africa’s first democratic elections as well as the birth of his first grandchild in 1993 and the fact that he never got to ...

... was the next time you saw Stompie sir? // I also saw him on the third day and I found that he was in a critical condition and Dr Asvat said to Mrs. Mandela… Mrs. Mandela asked Asvat to lend his help to the boy and assist him medically. And Asvat refused and said the boy should be sent to ...

Another major point of interest is the lime quarry where prisoners, such as Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Ahmed Kathrada were sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour, once worked with picks and shovels. Visitors also walk the village streets where the prison warders and their families ...

A week into my journey, Chris Hani, a senior ANC official was assassinated. He was shot down in his drive way in front of his 14 year old daughter, Nomakwesi. It was a terrifying indication that assassination continues to be used as a political weapon in South Africa. // ‘It was consistent with ...

‘Mndeni ka Bheki Tekere Mkwanazi, mndeni ka Mbovane Dion Cele Mzimela, mndeni ka Mbuso Tshabalala, mndeni ka Charles Ndaba, sinithwesa izimphahla zegwalagwala.’ To the families our message is, we share your sorrow, we share your rage and we share your pride. Know that South Africans for ...

The Truth Commissioners clearly had problems accepting Madikizela-Mandela’s statement that she had no knowledge of any of this. // Stompie has become almost a symbol in South Africa. Richardson says and many of them concur that he was beaten far more viciously than anyone else and the allegation ...

Leratodi Ikaneng is one of the few people who lived to tell the tale of Jerry Richardson and the Mandela United Football Club’s murder sprees. // I thought I was going to be shot. But at a later stage I discovered that they do not have a gun. Amongst these men, there was another one who was ...