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In 1990 Shirley Gunn, a former MK soldier, was detained with her 16 month old son, Harun, for 64 days. Their arrest concluded a nationwide hunt for the Khotso house bomber whom the police claimed was Shirley. A few months ago, former top police approached the Truth Commission and admitted ...

In 1990 Shirley Gunn, a former MK soldier, was detained with her 16 month old son, Harun, for 64 days. Their arrest concluded a nationwide hunt for the Khotso house bomber whom the police claimed was Shirley. A few months ago, former top police approached the Truth Commission and admitted ...

... and life. // But in general, people are saying give them a chance, come forward. In other words, they are forgiving them. One of the reasons is the Mandela factor. The kind of leader we have in South Africa is an example, a shining example. We’ve seen that it is important not to have a grudge. ...

This episode starts off with a brief history of conflict in South Africa, from the arrival of Europeans in the Cape till the inauguration of Nelson Mandela. The remainder of the programme covers TRC submissions from the PAC, NP and ANC.

we tell you more about the poisoning of activists by the police and their army in the late 1980s. And at the end of tonight’s report we respond to Winnie Mandela’s attack on this programme. But we start with the amnesty hearings in Port Elizabeth this past week. On 14 December 1989 three ...

We now have to wait for a decision by the Attorney-General on whether he has heard enough to lay criminal charges against Madikizela-Mandela and others. Talking about criminal charges and problematic public figures, as we expected, former State President PW Botha did not arrive at the Truth ...

... Zwane, I’ve even written it in my affidavit. I want to tell the TRC about Koekie Zwane. The fact that Koekie Zwane was killed is because Mrs. Mandela handed me down the task and said Richardson, Koekie Zwane is disturbing me, she’s bothering me. Koekie will take a person here in the house ...

We had fruitful discussions on the issue of the colonial debt, the issue of assets that were being claimed by the former South African government, including Walvis Bay. The repatriation of Namibian Koevoet and SWATF members from South Africa to Namibia and the extradition of Lubowski’s murder ...

... fighters were going to be crushed. The prison people tell them that in five years time people would have forgotten your names and out of this came Mandela and the ideas that today underpin one of the most democratic constitutions in the world. And what is special about Robben Island is that we ...

Katiza Cebekhulu says he saw Madikizela-Mandela stab Stompie with a shiny object one night but Jerry Richardson had a different version. He said Mommy had ordered him to get rid of Stompie. // I did the same with him. I slaughtered him. I slaughtered him like a goat. // And how did you do that? // ...

... Spear of the Nation. Leadership went underground. But the National Party had these fledgling liberation armies outmanned and outgunned. // Nelson Mandela was arrested on August 5 1962. Not long after the rest of the ANC leadership was arrested at Lilliesleaf farm in Rivonia. All were sentenced ...

Falati also claimed that she was told where the bodies are of some of the other children who disappeared. // Is it correct that you accompanied John Morgan to a certain place where certain pointings out were made? // And he told me that there’s a plantation and there was this mineshaft and Lolo ...

... told us that Cebekhulu was lying. // Stompie, there’s no other person who killed him, except for me and Slash with instructions from Mrs. Mandela and Sonwabo. We took him and we threw him at Noordgesig. We walked there, we did not use a car; it was me, Slash and him; Stompie was walking ...

the Amnesty Committee continued its hearing into the 1993 assassination of Communist Party leader Chris Hani. If the flamboyant figure of Madikizela-Mandela loomed large in Mayfair, the dowdy, bespectacled Gaye Derby-Lewis – wife of Clive Derby-Lewis – dominated the proceedings. Gaye ...

It is true that most of the witnesses who testified here were lying. As far as I am concerned Richardson was lying. As far as I am concerned the two youths who claim that I gave them money to kill Dr Asvat were lying. As far as I’m concerned Morgan’s ludicrous statements made before you here ...

... in. I accept responsibility for my actions. I’m not saying my actions are their problem. But, after all we fought for our country. Take President Mandela, he stands with his people. But our leaders, our previous leaders, don’t stand by us. During the time we committed these acts we believed ...

... were closed he was a rising star in Inkatha. By the time the UDF began pushing against apartheid in the 1980s, he was again prominent. When Nelson Mandela walked out of prison Reggie Hadebe was the ANC’s deputy chairman in the troubled Natal Midlands and working hard to end the civil war. He ...

You cannot compare the alleged violations in which Mrs. Mandela is allegedly involved with the crimes of apartheid, both in terms of quality, in terms of number, scope, scale and the nature of those violations. There is a fundamental difference between the two. At the same time I regard any ...

of its critics claim? I have four very interesting public personalities in the studio to discuss these questions with me. In Johannesburg is Dr Maki Mandela, director of human resources at Spoornet and Donald Woods, journalist, author and former newspaper editor. In Cape Town we have Mr. Abraham ...

... of who the names are. But can you imagine? If those people say for instance we heard from somebody and somebody that the names are so and so, Mandela was one of our informers. … is going to make that ...