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BOTHA, JHAge Description ... 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 ... Callas Botha owns a successful insurance brokerage in Roodepoort. Staal Burger is a sugar farmer. Slang van Zyl has turned his CCB cover as a private eye into his own lucrative business. And the three old friends got together again a few weeks ago, just before Slang van Zyl appeared at the Barnard ... ... Vlakplaas and about a range of 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... ... men over a period of nearly ten years? And above all, they must be able to tell the Truth Commission whether politicians like Adriaan Vlok and PW Botha knew of and ordered certain operations. General Engelbrecht was known as the Vlakplaas sweeper. He was the policeman who had to cover up police ... my mother that I would give her beautiful things. I would work for my mother. Now I did not get that chance to work for my mother. The government of Botha made me like this, like you see me ... disintegrated, but both his legs remained. One was 64 meters away from the explosion. Again, no head was found. Specialist pathologist professor Jan Botha said in his post-mortem reports that ‘the fact that the legs of the deceased were relatively spared suggests that they were standing at the ... We’ve come to the end of tonight’s report. This coming week we’ll see former cabinet ministers like Pik Botha, Adriaan Vlok, Magnus Malan, Leon Wessels and Roelf Meyer testifying before the Truth Commission’s special hearing on the inner workings of the State Security Council that ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 6 people including Anton Lubowski and David Webster who both died and Dullah Omar who survived plans to shoot and poison him. Staal Burger, Callas Botha and Slang van Zyl worked for the SADF Civil Cooperation Bureau in the late eighties and formed the core of the CCB’s Region 6, South Africa. ... ... 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 ... ‘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 ... ... 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. ... ... 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 ... |
