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BOTHA, JHAge Description Winnie Mandela, PW Botha, Magnus Malan, Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus. That’s who the Truth Commission had to deal with this past week. In today’s programme we have full reports on the amnesty applications of Chris Hani’s murderers, the testimony by former Defence Minister Magnus Malan ... ... security climate in which negotiations could take place. The members of the previous governments, with a few exceptions, such as mister PW Botha avoid taking a clear comprehensive, collective, political and moral responsibility for the actions of the South African Defence Force and its ... Badenhorst said Webster’s killing came up again, often. // I began to take it seriously when he told me in about 1995 that Calla Botha was the driver of the car. He said Calla was so shocked that he had to threaten him with a gun to get him to drive away. He told me Webster was an ANC activist ... Mister Botha put it as follows. ‘There is an attempt under Marxist leadership to bring about the revolution in southern Africa, more specifically in the Republic of South Africa. This can no longer be denied. The revolutionary elements are there and nothing can satisfy the hunger of those powers. ... Magnus Malan, who at first appeared reluctant to respond to questions about cross border raids later conceded that the main 1986 raid into Lesotho, Botswana and Zimbabwe were approved by PW Botha. In 1985 the then State President PW Botha declared the state of emergency in response to the growing internal unrest inside the country. In 1986 the second State of Emergency followed. For the first time in its history the South African Defence Force was deployed on a massive scale inside the ... ... in the assassination: the CCB Region 6 operatives, Wouter Basson also known as Christo Brits, Staal Burger, Chappie Maree, Ferdi Barnard, Calla Botha, Slang van Zyl. I would also have included Eugene Rily who have since died a violent death, allegedly by suicide. And secondly those having ... 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. 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. ... 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 ... ... the law was cracking under the strain. It was becoming too expensive to implement a law that people were defying more and more openly. In 1986 PW Botha repealed all pass and influx control laws. The tyranny of the dompas had finally come to an ... ... who became an MK in Durban while he studied for his medical degree at the University of Natal. General JA Steyn, Lt-Col Vorster and Col Hentie Botha are implicated in the disappearances of both Phila Ndwendwe and Phumezo Nxiweni. But many of the ten murder sites pointed out this week ... ‘Things Gone Horribly Wrong’ // But PW Botha was not the only difficult politician the Truth Commission had to deal with. It was clear from the beginning that the escapades of Winnie Mandela’s Football Club in Soweto in the 1980s would have to be investigated by the Truth Commission. The ... and knew everything that went on in the ANC’s Quatro camp in faraway Angola but nothing about Vlakplaas ten kilometres from him. In the days of PW Botha the State Security Council was the highest decision making body, made up of cabinet ministers and generals. Goosen showed De Klerk minutes of a ... other large external operation, was sanctioned personally by the Prime Minister, PJ Vorster, under the advice of the Minister of Defence, who was PW Botha and of course advised by the chief of the National Defence Force, General Malan, and the chief of the army, General Constant Viljoen. But ... ... did not support the system of apartheid. // Chairperson, the culture was that the organisation stood for change. I mention the 1979 meeting with PW Botha, I wasn’t there but I know many people, who were, and I recall at that time him pointing at businessmen and saying you keep out of politics, ... ... sprees. Between September 1987 and January 1988 six people were wounded. On January 10, 1988 another mini-massacre took place. Three people: Selvyn Botha, Johnny Carelse and Soyisile Douse were shot and killed; ten others wounded. // He was one of them, Soyisile was one of them, the one of the ... ... 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 ... ... against 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 ... |
