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... and violence Provincial victim empowerment forums should be set up and engaged as a contact point with service providers in government and NGO sector Provincial networks on violence against women co-ordinate related services to abused women A list of contact persons in the provinces is ...

an initial ‘short-term’ two-week period of detention was used for the systematic detention of young males, the most overtly politically militant sector of society. Activists were also targeted for longer-term preventive detention and for shorter detention for the purpose of interrogation. 243 ...

... Although earlier vigilante activity enjoyed the express approval of the royal family, and as a result was accepted as legitimate by a large sector of the population, the actions of Imbokodo were denounced by the royal family and were clearly unacceptable to the vast majority of KwaNdebele ...

... political outrage that followed the mass killings at the Pollsmoor march had galvanised communities outside of the youth and the education sector. People identified as ‘collaborators’ were increasingly targeted in petrol bomb and stoning attacks. The death toll continued to grow at ...

the Department of Health failed to use its resources to provide the best possible public health service. Probably the greatest problem in the health sector was the maldistribution of resources. Because of apartheid restrictions on where people could live and work, it was very easy for the ...

... particularly those with dual loyalties, to fight against the systemic human rights abuses that apartheid so deeply entrenched in the health sector. There were, however, many instances where people protested quietly or vociferously, and a few who put their careers and lives at risk in ...

... Unfortunately, we have not been able to undertake such an analysis. 87 It is recommended that institutions of learning and research, the private sector and civil society promote research programmes aimed at qualitative analysis of the data. It is further recommended that special sponsorships ...

to such thinking. But crises deepened may trigger paradigm shifts, and what is foreign and threatening may thus become integrated. Where the private sector acknowledges these phenomena, they may become agendas for their resolution. This is the sigh of social rights protagonists. It is the culture ...

... STATUTORY COUNCILS, BUT WOULD OBVIOUSLY WORK IN CO-OPERATION WITH THESE. THIS BODY BE RESPONSIBLE, AMONGST OTHER THINGS, FOR: IMPLEMENTING HEALTH SECTOR-RELATED RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED BY PARLIAMENT AS A RESULT OF THIS COMMISSION’S REPORT; MONITORING INSTITUTIONAL HEALTH CARE; ADVISING ON ...

... apartheid scenario, the African church has been worse off than the coloured, and the coloured church worse off than the Indian. 57 At the health sector hearing in Cape Town, the following apologies were made: Medical Association of South Africa (MASA): Our written submission details the many ...

... that this was one of the last opportunities for the Commission to communicate directly with victims and survivors, partner organisations in the NGO sector, the public generally and the international community and that the Commission owed them a report-back on its ...

... desirable, it is essential. The narrow outlook of the past can no longer be justified. PROFESSOR B. MAHARAJ ■ FINDINGS ARISING OUT OF HEALTH SECTOR HEARINGS 138 Health professionals who were named in submissions as having contravened ethics or acted unprofessionally will be referred to ...

... the military develop chemical weapons and truth serum to be used in questioning. 18 Based on the public testimony of Sean Callaghan at the Health Sector Hearing, 17 June 1997. 19 Armoured personnel carriers, designed to be landmine-proof. Casspirs were developed for use in Namibia but were ...

... hearings and the implementation by the state of the Commission’s recommendations on reparations and rehabilitation. In a submission to the health sector hearing in Cape Town, Professor M Simpson, a psychiatrist specialising in post-traumatic stress disorder, raised a further concern: There has ...

... that instructions and mandates were sometimes vague and were communicated poorly [and] … in large bureaucratic institutions such as the public sector there is a danger that decisions and instructions are not formulated, conveyed and interpreted in a correct way. 31 Mr Johan van der Merwe, ...

... coma. She died shortly afterwards of an entirely preventable and treatable condition. 6 This is a summary of the case presented at the Health Sector hearing on 17 June 1997 by the Health and Human Rights Project. Examples of misconduct among district surgeons 20 There are numerous ...

... National Council (UANC) in the March 1980 election, approximately half of which came from state coffers, while the rest was raised from the private sector by Foreign Minister Pik Botha. At independence in April 1980, the government of Zimbabwe inherited a total debt over R4 000 million which ...

... inside South Africa. j White right wing extremism in South Africa. k Vigilantes. l Gender concerns. m Children and youth. n The health sector. 8 These themes were researched on the basis of available material to provide a context within which the primary data of the Commission ...

... found themselves caught up in and traumatised by situations over which they had no control. Mr Sean Callaghan told the Commission at the health sector hearing: [I was] confronted with a patient who had no arms or legs, was blind and was deaf. [He] had been in a mortar pit launching 80mm ...

... seems, in the eyes of the SADF, to have been an highly effective outfit. In the SADF’s 1986 Yearbook, 101 is described as: the reaction force of Sector 10 (Kaokoland and Owambo with headquarters in Oshakati) and is a force without equal. It accounted for many of the terrorists eliminated by ...