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HUMAN, HSAge Description ... it seems. Then they must tell us what their position is. They are not the ones who have to make decisions about whether this or that is a gross human rights violation. We have been set up to do that. We have been set up to be the ones who determine whether a particular act or mission falls ... ... were in flames. Umlazi was no exception. Here, on the night of 8 August in the Umlazi Cinema a memorial service was held for Victoria Mxenge. A human rights lawyer and community leader, she was loved and respected until she was shot and hacked to death by four unknown men outside her house a ... ... have had to confront the fact, they’ve heard this coming out of the own mouths of these people now, these unbelievably terribly things for one human being to do to another and to admit it. And to say I hit him on the head with a steel spring, I stabbed him so many times, I burnt the body; ... ... of the men in whose custody Steve Biko died and at the Truth Commission process through the lenses of photographers. But we also investigate human rights violations of a very different kind, the young white men who had to fight the politicians’ war on South Africa’s borders. To Port ... The Truth Commission’s Committee on Human Rights Violations also had hearings in the Boland this week. It was mostly the tale of two towns, Worcester and Ashton, a tale of conflict, division and terror. Harris Sibeko is our guide. ... nothing! You don’t see it. That’s what I therefore think, that evil has a tendency of not only taking away from you the feeling that you’re human but it blinds your eyes, you can’t see. It blinds your ears, you can’t hear people ... No, I’m not sorry for what I did. Like I said in the past, I’m sorry for the people, for the waste of human life. Because say for instance we killed another 2000, there was no difference in the outcome of this whole political incident. ‘Khulumani’ meaning ‘let us speak out’ is an organisation run entirely by and for the victims and families of victims of human rights violations. Maggie Friedman’s partner, David Webster was shot dead in front of their Troyeville house in 1989. // I became involved in the setting up of ... The policy of apartheid has made South Africa much poorer than the country and its people could otherwise have been. Lost and unutilized human potential, wasted resources, people and capital that left the country, growth that did not occur and jobs that were not created; all these, and many more ... Benzien still serving as a captain in our police service? In next Sunday’s Special Report we bring you a full account of this week’s hearings on human rights violations in our prisons the last few decades and a profile on a veteran of struggle that many of our young people do not know about, ... ... Pretoria in the 1980s. The Silverton bank seize of January 1980 and the massive car bomb in Church street in May 1983. The Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee focused on these two bloody events in Pretoria this past week. In this week’s Special Report we also take you to ... ... take part in the Truth Commission process. That is why we did not hear the voice of a single IFP victim of the bitter conflict in Bruntville at the human rights violations this ... ... UCT and he was once tested. He was unequivocally poisoned with thallium. // Tell me about thallium. Why is it such an efficient poison to use on a human being? // Well, it’s known as the homicide’s dream drug; it’s colourless, it’s odourless, it’s tasteless. The symptoms don’t ... ... there had never been a clear instruction by the previous government or the State Security Council that any unlawful deed, which was a violation of human rights had to be ... ... // There was torture on a daily basis; there was killing on a daily basis. We just turned into political serial killers. We had no respect for human life and our commanders had absolutely no respect for our lives. // I didn’t know anything. They never said to me you’re going to kill ... Thank you for watching. Next week we report on the Human Rights Violations Committee hearings in Mooiriver in KwaZulu-Natal and we bring you a documentary on the young people who were victims of our conflict. Until next Sunday, good night. open letter to his father. It should remind us that in dealing with truth and reconciliation we should not forget that we are actually talking about human ... ‘Tony Yengeni Former MK Commander Torture victim.’ // What kind of man that uses a method like this one of the wet bag to people, to other human beings repeatedly and listening to those moans and cries and groans and taken each of those people very near to their deaths, what kind of man are ... ... out the Truth Commission is the forum to vent this kind of frustration. On to the men in blue. It is probably safe to say that the majority of human rights violations committed the last three decades were the work of members of the former South African Police Force. Several former police ... ... brutalized during the conflict of the apartheid years. For months people from every part of the country poured their hearts out before the TRC’s Human Rights Violations hearings. They told harrowing tales of pain, suffering, loss, murder, torture; but they also asked the Truth Commission for ... |
