DE WET, Peter

... South African vocabulary symbolizing evil. This week the Truth Commission was told that this former police hit squad also had a hand in a cold blooded execution in Cape Town. We bring you a full background report on the killing of the Gugulethu Seven and on the dramatic and bloody days six ...

... long distances they would be doing this thing. It’s not a statement. You see part of the problem with this is that somebody who comes from outside of that African culture interpreted it and indeed when you write there. Peter Mokaba said, ‘kill a Boer, kill a farmer,’ he didn’t in the ...

Evidence on the murder of Dr Abubaker Asvat will now only be heard on Monday. That will include the dramatic statement by one of the convicted killers, Zakhele Mbatha that he got the murder weapon from the hands of Winnie Mandela. On Tuesday, the so-called coach of the football club and the man who ...

He was a close friend of Eugene de Kock and of Craig Williamson and like his two friends he now wants the Truth Commission to grant him amnesty. But before that can happen, Peter Casselton will have to do a lot of explaining.

... Hardly a place where one would expect the former South African spy master to live and work. But this is where we found former security policeman Lt Peter Casselton. During the eighties Casselton handled a network of agents all over Europe. He was involved in the bombing of the ANC headquarters in ...

Friday was a more joyful day for the Biko family. Thousands of people packed the streets of East London to remember the life of Steve Biko. President Nelson Mandela said he’d never met Biko but regarded him as one of the greatest sons of South Africa. Singer Peter Gabriel also paid tribute to one ...

... we left Peter and Linda Biehl at Gugulethu we came to the site where their daughter had been attacked. Only these dried out flowers serve as a reminder of Amy Biehl’s brutal killing here at NY1, Gugulethu four years ago, an act which the Amnesty Committee now has to decide was either a ...

Bram Fischer was born in 1908 on a farm near Bloemfontein. He came from a well known legal family. His father, Peter Ulrich Fischer was Judge President of the Free State and his grandfather Abram Fischer had been a cabinet minister in the Union of South Africa. Bram went to Grey College and then ...

A clear example of the one man’s hero being the other man’s villain. Peter Hain is also such a man. Resented deeply by most white South Africans because he almost single handily launched the sports boycott against apartheid South Africa. Respected by most black South Africans because of his ...

Lucky was shot by a Boer but in the kombi there was Khumalo’s bodyguard. The Boers didn’t know Lucky. And the Boer who shot Lucky did not know him, but he was pointed out by Peter who was inside the kombi.

Louis Le Grange lied. At the time of the bombing a group of security policemen were assembled in London, amongst them Craig Williamson, Vic McPherson, Peter Casselton, Eugene de Kock.

There were two newspaper cartoons this week that I think captured this part of the evidence very well. This one is by Zapiro appeared in the Sowetan. And this one is by Peter Marshe and appeared in Beeld. We translated the words from Afrikaans. So they say they didn”t know much. Former Vlakplaas ...

Bram Fischer was born in 1908 on a farm near Bloemfontein. He came from a well known legal family. His father, Peter Ulrich Fischer was Judge President of the Free State and his grandfather Abram Fischer had been a Cabinet Minister in the Union of South Africa. Bram went to Grey College and then ...

Steve Biko was a medical student and under ordinary circumstances he would today have been a practicing doctor. His legacy to South African medicine has to be thoroughgoing correction of those issues in this story that might conceivably ever allow it to happen again. // Peter, thank you very much ...

Next was Methodist Bishop Peter Storey who had been involved in trying to secure the release of the four kidnapped youths. Bishop Storey provided the Commission with details and diary entries, which gave a blow by blow account of events around the whole kidnapping drama.

Former Vlakplaas boss, Dirk Coetzee declared in 1989 already that he fetched poison from the head of the forensics laboratory Gen Lothar Neethling in 1981 and gave it to two activists Vusi Mavuso and Peter Dlamini. Neethling denied this and said he never developed poison, a statement later ...

... Moema died because they just didn’t trust him, he asked too many questions; they killed him. Moses Nthelang was killed. Martin Mpofu died under mysterious circumstances. Uncle Mose died also under mysterious circumstances. ...

ask me to investigate these matters each time and warn me that these suspects had to be found at all costs. He also said that the youth and blacks under leadership of Peter Mokaba were exercising the slogan, ‘kill the farmer and kill the Boer’ and were later using the slogan, ‘one settler, ...

camera however he says he was the man who had to collect the explosives from the South African Embassy in London. For 6 months the explosives lied under his bed until the bomb was built in London. He also says that before the bomb was planted false passports and fire arms including a sniper’s ...

... have applied for amnesty for killing Bopape during interrogation; two others for disposing of his body; and three generals for covering up the death. // ‘Murder: Lt Col Adriaan Peter van Niekerk, Const Hendrik Albertus Mostert, Const Jacobus Hermanus Engelbrecht, Sgt Johan Ludwig du Preez, ...