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... officers also participated in the project. 63 In the 1970s, the SADF actively propagated its views on counter-insurgency throughout the state sector through courses and lectures to groups from both the security and non-security sections of the public service. It was in this period, too, ...

for professions and organisations themselves, triggering transformation from within. 40 The following institutional hearings were held:3 a health sector hearings b legal hearings c media hearings d business hearings e prison hearings f faith communities hearing Political party hearings ...

... These hearings examined: a the prison system b the media c the legal system d the role of business during apartheid e the health care sector f the faith communities g the state security system h the role of the armed forces i the involvement of the former state in chemical ...

... June 9 - 11 Cape Town (KTC) June 9 - 13 East London June 12 Johannesburg (Children’s Hearings) June 17 - 18 Cape Town (Health Sector) June 18 East London (Youth Submissions) June 24 Bloemfontein (Children’s Hearing) June 24 - 26 Ladybrand July 28 - ...

... 59 Chapter 4 INSTITUTIONAL HEARING: The Legal Community ................................. 93 Chapter 5 INSTITUTIONAL HEARING: The Health Sector.......................................... 109 Appendix 1: The Hippocratic Oath................... 158 Appendix 2: The Declaration of ...

and Customary Law ...... 112 CHAPTER 4 The Argument for Reparation: What the Witnesses Say ...... 120 CHAPTER 5 Reparations and the Business Sector ...... 140 CHAPTER 6 Reparations and Civil Society ...... 156 CHAPTER 7 Implications and Concluding Comments ...... 160 CHAPTER 8 ...

... 9. The Business Trust, established for the purpose of reparations, has to date received a total of some R800 million from the South African private sector. This is a paltry amount when one considers the massive amount needed to repair the inequities and damage caused to entire communities. A ...

Volume SIX Section TWO Chapter FIVE Reparations and the Business Sector ■ INTRODUCTION 1. Information received from the business and labour hearings indicated that: ‘Business was central to the economy that sustained the South African state during the apartheid years’.69 The Truth and ...

a short distance from Port Elizabeth. Uitenhage is an important centre for the motor industry in South Africa, and the unions that organised in this sector had a strong influence on the development of civics in that region during the 1980s. 234 The enactment of BLA legislation in 1983 and the ...

... OF BIKO’S DEATH, THE COMMISSION IS UNABLE TO CONFIRM A PERPETRATOR FINDING AT THIS STAGE. 18 See also chapter on Institutional Hearings: Health Sector in Volume 4. The case of Mzukisi Nobadula Mr Mzukisi Melvin Nobadula [EC0662/96] died in a Port Elizabeth prison in December 1977. He was ...

... privileged South Africans either condoned or simply allowed it to continue. 3 How did so many people, working within so many influential sectors and institutions, react to what was happening around them? Did they know it was happening? If they did not know, or did not believe it was ...

... Second, although early 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 the Imbokodo were denounced by the royal family and were clearly unacceptable to the vast majority of ...

to the racial divisions of apartheid. Separate meant far from equal and often resulted in no facilities at all for those who were not white. Private sector space was also subjected to rules: banks, restaurants, shops, places of worship, bottle stores, hotels and cinemas were all segregated, often ...

... he sustained serious brain injuries. He was examined by both a district surgeon and a medical specialist (see Volume Four, chapter on the health sector hearing). He was then transported naked in the back of a police van from Port Elizabeth to Pretoria. He died from brain damage in a prison ...

... start immediately. Many were young, and most had a background in statutory or non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Very few came from the private sector. 15 Recruitment policy was guided by criteria of representivity and merit. During the period of fullest employment, 44 per cent of staff ...

... was held with resource people outside of the Commission on research-related topics. These included workshops on children and youth, the health sector, the military and security, the homelands, the white right wing and the media. Several regional workshops were also held in each of the ...

... extensively in the report. 16 The Research Department undertook extensive work for ‘special event’ hearings on a number of issues: the health sector, the media, business, the judiciary, gender issues and children and youth, and for hearings on specific incidents. These latter included: a ...

... the basis for the territorial separation of whites and Africans; it destroyed, at a stroke, a thriving African landowning and peasant agricultural sector. It did so by prohibiting African land ownership outside of the initial 7 per cent of land allocated to the so-called traditional reserves and ...

the Western Cape and Northern Cape provinces. It was also given responsibility for many national events, such as political party submissions, health sector hearings and section 29 hearings. The regional information unit took responsibility for overseeing the data processing requirements of the ...

... on the KTC community. 57 The region also organised other hearings, some of which were initiated at a national level. These included: a a health sector hearing b submissions by the SADF c political party submissions and recall d the Oudtshoorn reconciliation programme e section 29 ...