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BOTHA, (first name not given)Age Description ... held hands. // How was the meeting gentlemen? // Well, it doesn’t seem that we’re cross with each other. // No, we had a good meeting and I’m not going to say a great deal more than that it was a meeting held in a very good atmosphere, very friendly atmosphere and that I’m looking forward ... ... the negotiations period. The final segment features extracts from satirist Pieter Dirk Uys? Truth Omissions that include impersonations of PW Botha, Pik Botha and Archbishop Tutu. ... Minister of Defence, PW Botha became president in 1979 after BJ Vorster resigned. The South African Defence Force stepped into power with him. Botha initiated a period of reform which included the scrapping of many apartheid laws including the mixed marriages act, the population registration act ... The first segment of this episode reports on the MUFC hearings that continued in Johannesburg this week (27 November - 4 December). MUFC ?coach? Jerry Richardson testified that he was ordered by Madikizela-Mandela to kill Stompie Seipei, Koekie Zwane, Sibuniso Tshabalala and Lolo Sono and confirmed ... ... Coloured identities to ensure a better life, and now want to reclaim their ethnic identities. The episode ends with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and PW Botha meeting the press outside Botha?s home. ... The first segment of this episode reports on PW Botha, who appeared before the George Magistrate this week 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 ... ... violent crimes during the negotiations era; Trust Feed killer Brian Mitchell was granted amnesty as well as former Conservative Party MP Koos Botha, for bombings during 1990 and 1991; right wingers Jean du Plessis and Cornelius van Wyk and the Van Straaten brothers were denied amnesty for ... ... episode provides background to the special hearings on the State Security Council held in Johannesburg (14 October). Former cabinet ministers Pik Botha, former Adriaan Vlok, Roelf Meyer and Leon Wessels gave testimony at the hearing. Although they all expressed regret for past evils, Leon ... ... of the deceased and with TRC personnel. The second segment examines the importance of remorse in the process of reconciliation, although this was not a legal requirement for the granting of amnesty. The following segment provides profiles on Truth Commissioners Richard Lyster, Mary Burton, ... Johannesburg (15 to 17 September) It focuses at the SABC?s role as chief propagandists of the state, including clips from the Verwoerd, Vorster and Botha eras? pro-state anti-liberation movement propaganda films. It also looks at the police spies who infiltrated newspapers, including interviews ... In fact there were far more members of the South African and international media than supporters of Botha. // Only a few friends and supporters of Botha, six media people and some ANC representatives were allowed inside the court where Botha had to face Magistrate Victor Lugaju, president of the ... ... He told me that the instruction had been approved by General Coetzee, with the knowledge and approval of Minister Louis Le Grange and President PW Botha. ... Are you saying you never did anything wrong, that’s why you won’t apologise? // No but you are always in front to do wrong things. I know that gentleman, I know that gentleman. He’s one of the gentlemen I don’t like. // Are you going to apologise for the people who died in jail, who died in ... ... care whether Oliver Tambo is met by Reagan, Gorbachev or Kohl; if he’s met by Margaret Thatcher or the Queen of Britain, this government will not negotiate with brutes and terrorists over the future of South Africa] // Adriaan Vlok, Deputy Minister of Defence between 1984 and 1986 and ... Why are you warning us? [unclear] // Every nation has a tiger in himself. The moment you attack the pride of a nation, you attack the cultural values of a nation, the deep beliefs of his existence and his self respect, that moment you awaken the tiger in him. // What’s the tiger going to do? // ... And then it is all blamed on so-called apartheid. Read the books and the speeches written about me. Read my speeches in Parliament and you will see that this is a hollow cry, this parrot cry of apartheid. While I expressly stated in the open that apartheid is an Afrikaans word and can be easily ... Die beginsel van een man een stem kan nie in Suid-Afrika werk nie [The principle of one man one vote cannot work in South Africa]. It can’t work because it didn’t work elsewhere in Africa. // I have applied self discipline during the past weeks and months. I’ve been lenient and patient. ... ... newspapers reported that the Lesotho Liberation Army was responsible. But it later appeared to have been a fictional organisation because Leon did not die immediately. He crawled to the neighbour and told her: the Boers killed my wife. He said they spoke Afrikaans. They blackened their bodies ... Archbishop Tutu and PW Botha Referring to the December 1985 raid into Lesotho in which seven people died De Kock said ‘I have no doubt that State President PW Botha must have known about this.’ After the raid De Kock and his men were decorated with the police cross for bravery, one of three medals for bravery that De Kock ... |
