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... 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 ...

I now realize that I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. For many years, when I went to visit my parents in the very dark years here, I would sometimes sit in an airport on my way back and think what am I going back to? A country that doesn’t seem to be ever going to solve its problems and I ...

... booze flowed, Barnard’s sidekick Corrie Goosens started boasting about his hero. This is an important man, he told the brothers, he works for the CCB. Barnard picked up his cue as the righteous killer. The main work of the CCB had been to take out ANC leaders he told the men. He described one ...

... of human rights violations. But what about those who were responsible for these violations. The Amnesty Committee’s full schedule starts in two weeks’ time, but a serious problem has been that former security force members were reluctant to come forward. That could be changing. In a ...

... programme, heart of the rural uprising against apartheid. And we talk to one of the most talked about men on the East Rand, vigilante leader Bishop Mbekizeni Khumalo. We start in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands where three former policemen this week applied for amnesty for the murder of an ANC ...

... of the people he once guarded in the Robben Island Museum. This is part of their conversation and if you’re wondering about Dorfman’s American accent, he has been living in exile in America for a number of years and he is presently Professor at Duke University in North ...

... for refusing to appear before the Truth Commission and on his refusal to apologise later at a press conference. The second segment reports on part two of the special hearings on the MUFC held in Johannesburg (28 to 29 January) that investigated the relationship between the Soweto Security Police ...

... who was baptized on the Sunday of Madiba’s release. When I was Bishop of Lesotho I used to visit Mrs. Madikizela-Mandela, well maybe once or twice, in Brandfort. I have immense admiration for her and there is no question at all that she was a tremendous stalwart of our struggle, an icon of ...

... and he was hit. At the time I didn’t realize it was a shot, I thought a bomb had exploded on the stoep because the bang was deafening and was accompanied by a brilliant flash of light. I jumped out of my bed and went to help dad. ...

... of a Transkei migrant worker, Fort Hare University graduate at 19, a man who spoke with passion about both Shakespeare and socialism, a man whose coming of age at 21 involved skipping the country to join the exiled ANC. One of the very first to respond to the ANC’s call to arms in the early ...

... killer. Turner?s film includes interviews with former BOSS agent Martin Dolinschek, Limpho and Lindiwe Hani and Joe Slovo and concludes with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Doctor Alex Boraine?s visit to the Women?s Monument in Bloemfontein, commemorating the women and children who died in British ...

... igwijo but its traditional songs, ‘Ngeke ngiye mina KwaZulu kwafela uma wam.’ Now, that’s not a statement that I’m making that I’ll never visit Zululand, it’s a song. I really don’t think that this … certainly …I don’t know whether Peter is here, he likes doing these things ...

or something, this kind of symbol of power. And it symbolized her pain and her power and I think that that picture is incredibly expressive of those two things: the frown on her brow, the hair in her hand, the anger, the pain that she’s carrying. // I went to Coetzee’s house in Pretoria and ...

Two violent actions by ANC guerrillas shook the foundations of white Pretoria in the 1980s. The Silverton bank seize of January 1980 and the massive car bomb in Church street in May 1983. The Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee focused on these two bloody events in Pretoria this ...

... police. So all of a sudden, there was a man with an army jacket. So he ordered us into a kitchen. So when we went into a kitchen we find there were two groups. So the other group was the people whom we stayed with and another group was a strange group, foreigners, so we didn’t know them. We ...

... with lethal results. The families of the victims insisted that their loved ones had walked into an ambush. More than a decade later, after two inquests and a trial, crucial questions remained. Were the Gugulethu Seven set up for slaughter or were they killed in the crossfire of a bungled ...

... The families and communities of the victims reacted with anger and bitterness and harsh words were directed at the former government. Sadly, the accused politicians went into a mode we are all too familiar with. // We were not responsible. We did not know. Well that’s a whole bunch of ...

... witnessed the violent murder of his father. He lives with this horror every day. // I’m Dudu Ngcobo. We used to stay in Imbali township, section two. We used to be constantly harassed by the police and on their visit, they asked what the surname of the household was and I told them we’re ...

... to expel him, kick him out of South Africa, but despite that he went back to prison. My grandmother, who’s also been to prison on a number of occasions in fact, gave birth while in prison to her last child. My father’s been to prison in 1936 during the historical Defiance Passive ...

Mtimkulu was sent to her at Groote Schuur Hospital in November 1981. // He was on discharge after five months in prison with only the police having access to him. He was ill immediately after discharge. His family in Port Elizabeth were extremely distressed. He was childlike with pain, actually ...