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HUMAN, HSAge Description A large part of the Truth Commission’s activities revolve around human rights abuses by the policemen and soldiers of the former government. But there’s another chapter of brutality, one that has not been closed properly, the bloody conflict between supporters of the ANC and the IFP. That is ... The forces of evil are always present in the hearts and minds of all human beings of all political persuasions on whatever side of the liberation struggle that you fight and that you sustain. And we must all accept that. ... // When people look at the work of the Commission they should remember that within a two year period we’ve changed the discourse forever about human rights violations and nobody will deny that they took place. Initially when victims told their stories people were disbelieving. Now that we ... ... races and enforce white rule. The dompas was born. It ruled the lives of millions of black adults until 1986. It was probably the greatest single human rights violation of our ... ... I’m going that high; but it’s also a dishonour, because violence is something unreasonable. I read once that violence is the lowest form of human behaviour. Actually, Robert was very emotional after that incident, contrary to what the people have made him out to be, and OK what he’s ... the brutal terror waged by right wing thugs in the Western Transvaal of the late eighties and early nineties. We start with the Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations hearings in Klerksdorp. Many black mothers and widows told the Truth Commission that they would only be able to make peace ... ... The people of the homeland mobilized for their freedom but Mangope’s security forces did not let go easily. At the Truth Commission’s human rights violations hearing in Northwest Province this past week Solly Bokaba, a student leader at the time, told about the savage attack on him ... There have been many women before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Till now they have been in the background speaking mainly about human rights violations against loved ones. This week, a special session in Cape Town was dedicated to hearing the stories of women who have been directly ... there are six more witnesses which we still have to take. Could you please in summary form, as the person is asking you, who is leading you, give us human rights violations which were done to you by the ANC on those camps, and give us your requests to the Commission. // I said, as a mutineer we ... ... time. Thank you very much for all your contributions. Next week we go back to our normal format with reports on the amnesty hearings in Gauteng and human rights violations hearings in Grahamstown and the Northern Province. Good ... ... the armed struggle, from the point of view of the liberation movements, was morally legitimate, necessary and justified, but we paid a cost in our humanity for doing the things we did and of course where we too from the side of the liberation movements abused human rights, we too have the shame ... ... the first time he begged Madikizela-Mandela for more information about his son. The last time was when he appeared before the Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations ... ... these strategies of fermenting so-called black on black violence. The Truth Commission resumes its hearings this coming week with a sitting of the Human Rights Violations Committee in Klerksdorp and Duncan Village in East London. And our appointment with you is next Sunday evening at quarter to ... ... like the one last week. We mostly hear the voices of perpetrators now. But it is important not to forget the first crucial part of the process: the Human Rights Violations hearings, the voices of the victims of the past. This is a ... ... our diverse heritage, when they are inviting to the public and interact with the changes all round them then they will strengthen our attachment to human rights, mutual respect and democracy and help prevent these ever again being violated. ... The Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee will hold hearings at the University of Western Cape in Belville this week as well as in Sebokeng in the Vaal Triangle. In our report next Sunday we will have special features on women and torture and the Boipatong massacre of June 1992. ... ... the only political party who did not make submissions to the Truth Commission two weeks ago. It seems as if they will now do it on Wednesday. The Human Rights Violations committee moves to Nelspruit in Mpumalanga and of course your Special Report team will be there. Good night. See you next ... The raid into Botswana that Craig Williamson was involved in was sadly not the only attack by the South Africans in that country. There were two others and the human toll of the three operations was heavy. Hello. Tonight the Special Report takes you to the extreme north and the extreme south of our country with human rights violations hearings in the northern parts of the Northern Province and in the Eastern Cape platteland. We also tell you more about the latest report regarding the third force and ... Last year the Truth Commission heard numerous stories of human rights violations committed in Bloemfontein by the security police and their surrogates in gangs like the Three Millions and The Eagles. But this year has seen very few policemen or the gangsters they handled coming forward to tell the ... |
