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D’ATH, GeorgeAge Description This episode focuses on the HRV Committee hearings held in Umtata between 18 and 20 June and in George from 18 to 19 June. Segments include the 22 November 1990 attempted coup in the Transkei - supported by SA Military Intelligence - which left 19 people dead; testimony from Teddy Williams, a ... We have a shrine of him here in George, it’s literally a shrine. I mean, if you go in there, they call it the George Museum, it is funded by the rent payers; the upkeep is paid for by the rate payers but it is a shrine. Everything in the Museum is PW’s. I think we need to make a call to George, ... This episode focuses on the Amnesty Committee hearings of Chris Hani?s killers, Janusz Walus and Clive Derby-Lewis (held in Pretoria). Derby-Lewis is cross examined by human rights lawyer George Bizos, questioning him on previously lying to the court and on whether the Conservative Party sanctioned ... This episode focuses on the ongoing Amnesty Committee hearings of Chris Hani?s killers (held in Pretoria). George Bizos continued his cross examination of co conspirator, Clive Derby-Lewis this week and Hani?s assassin, Janusz Walus, finally took the stand. The final segment comprises an update on ... The first segment of this episode reports on PW Botha, who appeared before the George Magistrate this week for refusing to appear before the Truth Commission and on his refusal to apologise later at a press conference. The second segment reports on part two of the special hearings on the MUFC held ... The first segment of this episode report on the amnesty hearings of Eastern Cape security policemen responsible for Steve Biko?s death in Port Elizabeth (8 to 11 December). The segment includes an interview with Biko?s son and wife who believe the applicants are still not telling the full story. ... This episode covers the HRV hearings held in Soweto (22 to 26 July) and in Queenstown (22 to 24 July) and the Amnesty Committee hearings held in Kroonstad (22 to 24 July). From Soweto we hear Lolo Sono and Sibuniso Tshabalala?s parents? testimonies on the abduction of their children in 1988 ? ... This episode starts with a report on former Minister of Defence Magnus Malan?s submission to the TRC. Malan is questioned on his allegation that Anton Lubowski was a paid agent of SA Military Intelligence, on state sanctioned assassinations and more. The following segment covers right winger ... George Mavundla’s wife and son were among seven people massacred by the IFP at Bhambule near Margate on July 4th, 1992. In that case five men, including the local chief, were convicted and sentenced. // The questions that are still difficult to me … this I don’t understand because when a ... It turned out to be a very appropriate name, Mbokodo, the stone that crushes. The name of the ANC’s security department while the ANC was still in exile in neighbouring states. The infiltration of South African government spies led to paranoia and the resulting rehabilitation camps became places ... There had been much speculation in newspapers about possible clashes between large numbers of right wingers and ANC demonstrators. The white people of George were holding their breath and the police were ready for anything. But when the first groups of chanting protestors arrived from the township ... For years the people of Maokeng, the township outside Kroonstad in the Free State were terrorised by a brutal gang, called the Three Million Gang. The authorities, for their own reasons, turned a blind eye. And then the community dealt with it in their own brutal way. Most white South Africans were very proud of these actions of the Defence Force. But for Hilda Phahle it was her worst nightmare come true. Her son George lived in Gaborone. George’s brother Levi watched his family being killed by SADF special forces commandoes. // Levi watched from under the bed ... George Bizos (counsel for the Hani family) cross-examines Clive Derby-Lewis Three Million Gang leader, George Ramasimong’s killer applies for amnesty Adultery and a man with a sharp sense of revenge sparked off political passions that had the Free State community in an iron grip of violence. Maokeng township in Kroonstad is as small as its passions are large. George Ramasimong, better known as DiWitty, went into battle with the ANC youth league ... But as the official photographer of the TRC George Hallet’s work has to go beyond photographing the main players in the drama of the Truth Commission. // I think the TRC also wants to make clear that besides what’s happening on the stage there’s also a process that takes place in the offices ... 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. ... George Phahle had worked as a courier for the ANC underground in Botswana. But the SADF raid was by no means as surgical as the SADF claimed. In his recent court case the former commander of Vlakplaas, Eugene de Kock testified that the commandoes involved in the raid were not able to bring back any ... Young Benjamin Oliphant was constantly on the run from police. In December 1986 he was betrayed by a police informer, he was arrested. When his family went to look for him at the Klerksdorp police station, they were told that he had already been released. On their way home, they saw something which ... |
