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BOTHA, JHAge Description Alright, can I have a question from Robert Brand first, from The Star? // Our country’s full of people like PW Botha and Adriaan Vlok and Johan van der Merwe who are going to apply for amnesty. If these people get amnesty, and a lot of people remain in public positions, government jobs, get state ... A strange twist in the horrible tale of the Gugulethu Seven is that of a video that police were compiling for the then State President PW Botha. The video was designed to illustrate Cape Town’s new success in counter-terrorism. Serious questions were asked about why the video crew was on standby ... ... of young whites embracing liberation and democracy in Namibia and South Africa. Shortly after he publicly joined SWAPO in 1984, state president PW Botha informed him that he was dishonourably discharged from the South African Defence Force. Lubowski became the target of harassment, attacks, and ... ... They said, says who? So Claasen was there, Jimmy Claasen and he said it’s the Prime Minister’s instructions. The Prime Minister then was PW Botha. Then they say. Where’s the documents? So they didn’t have the documents, so Claasen left and got a letter from the Prime Minister saying ... But they failed to destroy his spirit. Nor that of one of his daughters. // She happened to be here, and she always said dad I’m going to make sure that I get educated so that one day I can be a judge and sentence PW Botha to death. ... 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 ... ... to the right wing Orde Boerevolk attacked a bus of black commuters. Seven people were killed and 27 injured in this racially motivated attack. Piet Botha, Adriaan Smuts and Eugene Marais had executed the attack. They wanted to kill black people in revenge for an attack on white pedestrians on the ... be damaged by explosives to such an extent that it could no longer be utilized. According to mister Vlok this instruction had come from President PW Botha personally. It was common knowledge within security circles at the time that the building served as a sort of internal headquarters of the ANC ... In George, the local ANC is getting ready for their day of showing their anger and protest. // Comrades, if we were to put down all the crimes of PW Botha, this wall is too small. We left out Ashley Kriel, we left out District Six, we left out Sophiatown; we left out Cato Manor. We left out so many ... ... If the Defence Force can say there was no secret, it was an open thing, no it can’t be, because when they took these people from Ulundi to Louis Botha they were put in a truck with dark windows; on our way to that base everything were … with black plastic bags, so that they mustn’t see and ... another ally, Malawi’s Hastings Banda, who was supporting RENAMO. In fact, documents to this effect were according to then Foreign Affairs Mr. Pik Botha found in the Machel ... Our subpoena to Mr. PW Botha is in fact defective in that, although we have the date and place, we omitted to state the time and for lawyers that is not just a minor technicality. ... without trial, torture and death. A searing collective hurt in Cape Town to this day remains the death of District Six. On 11 February 1966 P W Botha declared it a white area and its tight knit community was scattered to the wastelands of the Cape ... ... Report has been able to find any cabinet or State Security Council documents relating to this. But what is clear is that to this day neither PW Botha nor the then SADF have told the full story of their involvement in the Seychelles coup attempt. Niel Barnard is now the Director-General of the ... In my view, it could be a major omission which could poison the whole case and I was not prepared to risk a prosecution on a faulty document. PW Botha was treated like any other person in arriving at this decision and let me assure everybody he will be treated like any other person similarly if the ... Friday morning, 23 January 1998. PW Botha’s day in court had come. Photographers are waiting to catch Botha of taking his early morning customary walk outside his Wilderness mansion. The raids in Lesotho 1982, 1985; the raids in Matola 1981; the raids in Swaziland; the raids in Mozambique; the raids in Angola; the raids in Zambia; the raids in Zimbabwe; the raids in Botswana; all were because of the policies of PW Botha. ... that South Africa might want to have a black President. Now you know I was right, I know I was right, everyone knows I was right. President Botha thought I was left. And so I was forced to say sorry in order to keep my job in the cabinet so I could fight apartheid from within ‘en nee ... 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 ... ... 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 ... |