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D’ATH, George

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A photographer and journalist who was hacked and stabbed to death by Witdoeke vigilantes in Nyanga, Cape Town, on 10 June 1986, during the mass destruction of UDF-supporting squatter camps carried out by the vigilantes, acting with the tacit approval and aid of the security forces. Mr D’Ath was the first journalist to be killed in the political conflict in South Africa.

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Walter Smiles’ unexpected confession created more questions than answers. The two men in jail for the attack believe they were wrongfully convicted. // I formulated a story so that I can be saved from the oppression. Van der … came after I’ve agreed to their story and then they said they ...
Alright, you want to go back to… // No simply I think the George Bizos example’s good, also for the Biko killers. We heard these probing questions and unlike the original so-called inquest where half the stuff couldn’t be brought out, at least the public… and I take Herman’s point that it ...
The big question facing the Amnesty Committee this week is whether or not the applicants have disclosed fully. With George Bizos chipping away at their evidence from the families’ side and Eugene de Kock delivering a few powerful side swipes from his corner, serious doubts have been raised about ...
That’s the end of tonight’s Special Report. The Truth Commission will have sessions in Umtata and George this coming week. Goodnight.
General Leon Mellet was the public face of the ministry of law and order for many years. We met him on his farm, outside George where he recently retired, and we asked him about his and his colleagues’ impression of the Truth Commission process. // I’m worried that this is going to go down in ...
Professor Giliomee … // Well I’ve got trouble with Donald Woods’ assertion that people know when they hear the truth or not. I think as a newspaper editor I think he probably will say no that is not quite true. The point is that, certainly in the case of the Biko case we have had revelations, ...
Hello. Our main focus tonight is on the four cabinet ministers who appeared before the Truth Commission this past week. But we also have a report on the role that Intelezi, some people call it muti, plays in a conflict in KwaZulu-Natal. Let me introduce you to the four actors who starred in this ...
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.
Brigadier Jan van der Hofen has denied any complicity in the murder and said at the Harms Commission that he read about the murder in the newspaper. // Evidence was recently led in the Eugene de Kock case that he and his men killed the fourth member of the death squad. Brian Ngqulunga was shot dead ...
Good evening. Units of the South African Defence Force carried our raids on ANC targets in Gaborone, Botswana today. // Gen Viljoen told the news conference that the death toll included three trained women terrorists while two unidentified persons who fired on the South Africans from a vehicle ...
‘Gaborone Botswana June 1985’ // Their intelligence seems to have been least good in regard to Botswana where in a number of the raids they killed non South Africans and even some of the South Africans who were killed were not MK operatives, they were exiles, they were refugees, but mostly they ...
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