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HUMAN, HSAge Description In the Truth Commission process there are victims and there are perpetrators of human right violations. Patrick Hlongwane was both. // Hlongwane left South Africa in December 1986 to meet with the leadership of the ANC in exile. He had been part of the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation, but ... ... body was full of bullet wounds. You know, I went to the mortuary to identify him, I mean those are very touching stories. You get emotional, we are human beings. ... lying or telling half truths or hiding something. The Special Report’s interest in this story lies not with Winnie and who she is or was, but with human rights violations committed in our past. Two boys connected with Madikizela-Mandela were killed in one wild year, 1988. Stompie Seipei was a ... ... brought democracy and peace to our country, or perhaps I should say to the largest part of our country. Because in KwaZulu-Natal the slaughter of human beings continue unabated. Third force activities and divide and rule policies by former governments are perhaps part of the reasons for the ... The Truth Commission staff categorise human rights violations under different headings: severe assault, torture, necklacing, death in detention. But the most disturbing is disappearance. The name Stanza Bopape was filed under this heading. ... // I don’t know what is the price of freedom, justice. I think there is no price for that. // Ultimately the real price that is important is the human rights price; that is one price that you cannot afford to ... ... strongest visual memories of the Truth and Reconciliation process. And the reburial of these bones serves as a reminder that they belonged to real human beings with sons and daughters and mothers and fathers. Tonight we take you with us to one of these funerals that took place yesterday. There ... Back to this week, the last hearings in Ladybrand. We thought it a good idea at the end of this part of the Truth Commission to give you an idea of a day in the life of the Human Rights Violations Committee. ... could work towards reconciliation. // I’m just seeing a group of very dangerous people who didn’t take care of Steve. I think they were just inhuman, they were just not dealing with a human being when they were dealing with ... ... applications can be dealt with and are being dealt with without the necessity of a public hearing. But wherever there has been a gross violation of human rights there has to be a public hearing. As a result of the extension of the dates we have experienced a large number of applications flowing ... Two convicted murderers walked free this weekend. They were the first perpetrators of gross human rights violations to be granted amnesty by the Truth Commission. Amnesty is our focus later on in this programme. Tonight we take you to KwaZulu-Natal where the Truth Commission and the Supreme Court ... Hello. The Truth Commission has thus far concentrated on only one of its tasks: recording the testimony of victims of human rights violations. But what about those who were responsible for these violations. The Amnesty Committee’s full schedule starts in two weeks’ time, but a serious problem ... It is going to be a full week for the Truth Commission. The five policemen’s amnesty hearings start tomorrow in Johannesburg and the Human Rights Violations Committee will hear evidence on the assassination of Natal academic Rick Turner in Durban on Thursday. We’ll meet again next Sunday ... especially those that are not harsh to Africans and as a result would not be attacked easily. I used to stay at Fourie’s farm. He used to have bad human relations with his workers, but as a soldier I cannot use the fact that I knew him as an ... ... war. A real pity there wasn’t a truth commission in Zimbabwe after their liberation. This coming week there will be two days of hearings about human rights abuses in the health sector with case studies like the torture, treatment and death of Steven Biko. We’ll meet against next Sunday. ... ‘Ladies and gentlemen welcome to Port Elizabeth’ // We’ve just touched down here in the Eastern Cape where the Truth Commission held its first Human Rights Violations hearings in April last year. The Special Report team hopes to speak to some of the first victims who told their stories to the ... Most of you who have followed this programme since April 1996 will have seen the Truth Commissioner with the greying beard and the sympathetic face. Our Truth Commission profile today is of Dr Fazel Randera, Deputy Chairperson of the Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee. ‘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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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. 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