BOTHA, JJ

... Levy found that there was prima facie evidence that these men were accomplices to the murder: Ferdi Barnard, Chappie Maree, Staal Burger, Calla Botha, Slang van Zyl, Joe Verster, as well as Johan Niemoller and Wouter Basson. The controversial part of Judge Levy’s finding was that Acheson ...

We have seen very few former politicians, generals and foot soldiers expressing genuine regret for the evils of the past. The apologies we have heard so far mostly went along the lines of, if we hurt people, we are sorry, but we didn’t mean it. Adriaan Vlok and Pik Botha also expressed regret.

PW Botha knew about Vlakplaas and its evil mission. Cabinet ministers Louis le Grange and Adriaan Vlok knew. Police commissioners Johan Coetzee and Johan van der Merwe knew, in fact it was their idea. The last National Party president, FW de Klerk says he did not know. When he appeared before the ...

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.

... 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 In 1986 PW Botha repealed all pass and influx control laws.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 ...

... His background is a conservative Afrikaans one. He should have found a political home in the National Party, but unable to stomach the rule of PW Botha and his securocrats Malan resigned from the NP and ultimately threw in his lot with the Democratic ...

The mere fact that PW Botha can walk into that hall, the mere fact that he had to face a black magistrate and a brown prosecutor, the mere fact that he stood there and that the new SA saw him in his own court room of which he was such a notorious symbol – for me that was more than just a victory. ...

At precisely 12:30 on the 20th of May 1987 a limpet mine exploded outside the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court. A group of police officers on duty in the vicinity responded immediately. They rushed to the aid of passersby, unaware of the bomber, MK operative Joseph Kwetle who was stationed nearby.

... an informer. In Cape Town, Major-General Deon Mortimer presents the South African Defence Force?s submission to the TRC, by and large defending Botha?s total strategy. Deputy chairperson Alex Boraine highlights the serious omissions in the SADF submission. Former commissioner of police, Gen ...