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BOTHA, (first name not given)Age Description ... his house and tapped his home and office telephones. And on the 1st of September 1989 CCB boss Joe Verster, Staal Burger, Chappie Maree, Calla Botha and Wouter Basson watched the videos in this hotel room in Johannesburg and decided on a plan of action. // Around 8 o’clock the evening of ... ... evidence and the amnesty application of five security policemen. We also tell you the stories of two police executions in the Boland. But first, the assassination of Durban academic Richard Turner in 1978. This week his daughters, his wife and friends relive the horror of the most ... different specific killings. But one of the most dampening/damning effects of education was the apartheid regime, PW Botha, FW de Klerk specifically not allowing people to be educated. And by disabling and robbing people of that, De Klerk must come forward and actually say why did we do this. And ... Right next to the Magistrate’s Court and the area where the people demonstrated is the George Museum. A large part of the Museum is taken up by an exhibition of the life of PW Botha, but this exhibition will not remain untouched for long. Certainly the questions uppermost in the minds of Archbishop Tutu and his team this week. They”d gathered former State Security Council members Pik Botha, Adriaan Vlok, Roelf Meyer and Leon Wessels to get straight answers. Was the State Security Council a shadow cabinet? What were its precise ... ... 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 Commission hearing in Cape Town on Friday. If he insists on ignoring the subpoena to cooperate his chances of going to jail ... ... hurts. They believed in them. Although they blame the white people, they didn’t know. I still don’t know… and I feel ... I hope that mister Botha has mellowed and he will be humbled, he will humble himself to ... ... soldiers are on the parade ground. In the rest of the little town family members and refugees from Namibia do the household chores to prepare for another day in the bush. And then death rains from the sky. // There was no ground support. It was basically three companies, under the legendary Col ... In a sense its rather ironic that in a time when Mr PW Botha doesn’t want to come to the TRC that some of the more right wing people are wanting to come to the TRC and I think we owe them that they should have a hearing, or an event where they can put their case. Also for the sake of ... ... found that there was also prima facie evidence that CCB members Staal Burger, Ferdi Barnard, Chappies Maree, Wouter Basson, Johan Niemoller, Calla Botha, Slang van Zyl and CCB commander, Joe Verster were accomplices to the murder. Magnus Malan says he has never heard of this ... Phila’s death was not an isolated occurrence. A member of Umkhonto we Sizwe’s special operations unit a man known as Raymond Mkhwanazi, or MK Tekere was kidnapped from Swaziland a month after Phile. His was one of the bodies found this week and a local newspaper investigation claims that the ... The oppressed in the scheme of reconciliation must not bear the burden of such horror, I would say, as the nine days that Mrs. Mandela went through and Mr. Botha can thumb his nose at such Truth and Reconciliation. ... Security Council, the most powerful decision making body dealing with security matters in the country during the 1980s was the brainchild of PW Botha. At the heart of the TRC’s investigation into the State Security Council is who in the chain of command knew what? This week, both former ... had gunshot wounds in his leg, eye and back. His death was a mystery. When he was captured by Holomisa’s men earlier that day he limped out of the Botha [inaudible] building, only slightly injured. He was loaded in the boot of a car and taken away. ... ... soldiers are on the parade ground. In the rest of the little town family members and refugees from Namibia do the household chores to prepare for another day in the bush. And then death rains from the sky. // There was no ground support. It was basically three companies, under the legendary Col ... Commission had no choice to refer the matter to the Attorney-General who charged Botha with contravening the Truth and Reconciliation Act. Botha’s first court appearance turned out to be a ... ... that we attended the Truth Commission session this week where General Malan gave his voluntary testimony. The Truth Commission Special Report does not merely report on the Truth Commission process; we have a duty to contextualize events and to assess everything related to the Truth Commission ... ... dominated by amnesty applications and special hearings like the one last week. We mostly hear the voices of perpetrators now. But it is important not to forget the first crucial part of the process: the Human Rights Violations hearings, the voices of the victims of the past. This is a ... The other dimension of course was a perception which was deeply held, particularly by PW Botha and the State Security Council up until 1985 and that was that the primary threat to South Africa was external. ... on the ongoing amnesty hearings of the two right wingers who killed Chris Hani and the testimony of Magnus Malan, Neil Barnard and possibly PW Botha before the Truth Commission. Before we go, some good news, from tomorrow this programme will be repeated every Monday morning at 10:45 on SABC ... |
