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... 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 ...

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 advice by the chief of the National Defence Force, General Malan, and the chief of the army, General Constant Viljoen. But ...

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 ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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. We must never forget our history.

... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... generals said very interesting things and omitted many interesting things. And fingers were pointed all the way up to mister total onslaught, PW Botha. We have full reports on the generals’ evidence and the amnesty application of five security policemen. We also tell you the stories of two ...

‘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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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.

... 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 ...

Fifty percent of the comrades, believe you me, they believe that PW Botha should go to jail. They say that if PW is young enough to take a wife, he’s young enough to go to jail. This is their point of view and they say that ‘hy is te oud vir die TRC maar hy’s nie te oud om ‘n jong vrou te ...

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 ...

... 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 ...