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HUMAN, HSAge Description People who must have an opportunity to register their regret at not preventing human rights violations and also to give them an opportunity to register their commitment to reconciliation. There’s more than one South Africa. There is the South Africa of the cities and towns and then there is traditional South Africa, the areas formerly called homelands, like most of the Northern Province where the Human Rights Violations Committee sat this week. ... We also visit the killing fields of KwaZulu-Natal where the depths of hatred and brutality again surprised this past week. And we remind you that human rights violations were not the monopoly of the apartheid state. We hear the story of one man’s suffering in the ANC’s camps in Angola. But ... ... and Reconciliation Commission and we as a nation have to deal with two kinds of truth about our past, the truth through the eyes of the victims of human rights abuses and the truth as seen by those responsible for those abuses. We have now heard the voices of the victims, or perhaps we should ... ... a number of places. Now that document was sent by a Major-General. Kuhn of Crime Intelligence Service. // You’re saying you were framed then as a human rights lawyer and not now as a truth commissioner. // Exactly. What I’m saying is even then there were allegations that were made about how I ... ... sought amnesty for 15 violations including murder, attempted murder, torture and arson. Mr. Ngo claims that he committed and witnessed these gross human rights violations throughout the 1980s whilst working as a security police informer and then as a security policeman. Ngo’s application ... ... in their home spattered with blood all over the place. It was disgusting, brutal, deceitful, treacherous, coldblooded murder.’ // ‘Pieces of human brains was scattered around. That was the end of Bheki. // ‘I think it was the seventh day, I was very hungry. I had no food. They left me in ... ... We did not oppose this. We said yes we all want to know the truth. Yes, we differ in the method how we establish the truth. And we felt that if a human being, a person like the clergy people, could be the people that would probably engineer or facilitate this; the very clergy people were the ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... hearing of applications. They also said that the acts applied for by the ANC’s collective application ”did not constitute gross violation of human rights.” // Opposition parties, including the National Party, objected to these findings saying that amnesty could not be granted ... ... 8 o’clock; a slightly shorter programme and a bit of a new look. In tonight’s programme we’re going to look at which perpetrators of gross human rights violations received amnesty from the Truth Commission and whose applications were turned down and why. We’ll give some background to ... In April 1989 Wits anthropologist and human rights activist Doctor David Webster wrote a report on repression in South Africa. It contained details on detentions and disappearances; he called it apartheid’s ultimate weapon. On Workers Day, 1989 Webster fell victim to apartheid’s ultimate weapon ... ... I have four very interesting public personalities in the studio to discuss these questions with me. In Johannesburg is Dr Maki Mandela, director of human resources at Spoornet and Donald Woods, journalist, author and former newspaper editor. In Cape Town we have Mr. Abraham Mzizi, IFP member of ... but also having some form of Amnesty Committee in equivalent that would certainly send a very strong message to the profession that transgression of human rights, unethical abuses in that regard are not ... ... sure that we plant a seed. We know what is the goal of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It’s basically to establish partly a culture of human rights, to promote national healing and reconciliation. So obviously if you give people handouts, irrespective of whether they can 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. ... ... report malpractice. // My immediate plans for when the TRC ends are to go and lecture in the USA for a few months; there are a number of schools of human rights at the universities there and they’re all very interested in hearing about the process, particularly within the health sector and what ... ... in the end when the report came out the report stated, this woman’s husband has disappeared on this date and he has been found to be a victim of human rights violations. But she already knew that. She got no further truth from that case. She already knew exactly what the commission wrote, ... ... // 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 ... |
