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HUMAN, HSAge Description ... that you’ve done to us we are willing to stretch out our hands in reconciliation. Please don’t spurn this opportunity. // But we start with the Human Rights Violations Committee’s last hearings for 1996 held in Denilton in Mpumalanga. Bantustans for black South Africans were an essential ... While the Truth Commission is limited to the exposure of gross violations of human rights, apartheid was far more than detention without trial, torture and death. A searing collective hurt in Cape Town to this day remains the death of District Six. On 11 February 1966 P W Botha declared it a white ... of the AWB and seven ANC members – all of them convicted murderers – will ask the Amnesty Committee in Potchefstroom to free them from jail. The Human Rights Violations Committee is having a special hearing into the Bisho massacre of September 1992 with some top politicians giving evidence. ... ... submission that I shall make here is not an assault on the ANC as a movement but something to point out some of the atrocities and the violation of human rights by some of the members of the ANC in exile. In 1989 we heard he was in detention in Lusaka. The South African Council of Churches gave ... ... Africa. I recently watched a very moving show on confession and forgiveness that I thought very appropriate to our situation. It is not about gross human rights violations, it is about something we South Africans know very well: racial prejudice and discrimination. In 1954 the United States ... ... course Gauteng saw a special hearing of the Truth Commission on the Soweto uprising of 1976. But first, we look at the very serious allegations of human rights violations made against two top ANC leaders, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Natal leader, Jacob ... But finally and perhaps most importantly there is the question of whether the C Max concept is in line with the rights of prisoners as set out in the constitution. The constitution states that conditions of detention should be consistent with human dignity. ... was one of the black security policemen who lived and died in the dirty sinister world of Vlakplaas. He was part of the team that brutally murdered human rights lawyer, Griffiths Mxenge, in 1981. By 1987 Ngqulunga was about to crack. He’d become too much of a threat to the Vlakplaas death ... 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, ... ... of unhappy and frustrated guerrillas and the rough treatment of everybody vaguely suspected of being an informer combined into the ANC’s biggest human rights disaster. It was worst at the Morris Seabelo rehabilitation centre, also known as Camp 32, or Quatro, 200 kilometres north of the ... ... in December 1993 on members of their own organisation, the ANC Youth League. It is the first time the Truth Commission has heard evidence of gross human rights violations where the perpetrators and the victims were members of the same political party. It is a brutal story; one that tells us a ... ... their fate consists of Judge Mall, Judge Wilson, Judge Mwepe, Attorney Sisi Khampepe and Advocate Chris de Jager. The five policemen say all the human rights violations they’re guilty of were committed with a political motive and with the express or implied authority of the then South ... ... an approved operation therefore. Like all sensitive operations, sensitive in the sense that should there be any leakages there would be a loss of human lives, etcetera, the State President told me just keep quiet about this, this is very ... reality of life in KwaZulu-Natal in the last decade has left many thousands dead. In areas like the south coast around Port Shepstone the concept of human rights has become as strange as killing has become familiar. People there are tired of the conflict. Yet when the Truth Commission visited Port ... ... over 2500 people had been hanged in this country. The Truth Commission now has to investigate whether or not the death penalty constituted a gross human rights ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... … // Then if we take what you say further all the politicians should have applied for amnesty in these cases where killings were a result or gross human rights violations were a result of these kinds of actions? // I listened to what my former colleague, Pik Botha said here this morning. ... During the 13 months of human rights violations hearings of the Truth Commission a large number of women gave testimony. Most of them came as the wives or mothers of victims, but it has become clear that women suffered in a different way. While torture and abuse happened to most political ... To me it feels as if the world has just closed their doors for me, because I’ve got nowhere now. // No self-respecting human being can feel happy for killing even one person. Now if you talk about 30 you will know how I feel. It’s terrible, it’s a sadistic act, it’s something that one ... |
