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HUMAN, HSAge Description 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... ... night vigil. I understand my brother was abducted but when people who came to give their last respect and be mowed down like that. I mean, a normal human being cannot do that, unless somebody’s been hired, trained, to do ... ... 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. ... ... bag over the head or decide to work for the security police with benefits like proper pay and a luxury life on Vlakplaas. So it’s obvious, it’s human that you would choose the easy way ... ... about certain security matters say nuclear war or things like that but in terms of what the government in the past has done and its complicity in human rights abuses, we know that now. I think that is a gain. It will be much more difficult in the future for governments to lie. So I conceded ... In an historic first for the Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee a serving policeman told a father at the Paarl hearings of the Truth Commission what he knew about the death of his son. But like so many of the stories we hear this one begins with the heartache of yet another ... For three days this week the Uitenhage town hall was filled to capacity as people came to observe and participate in the work of the TRC’s Human Rights Violations Committee. On Tuesday the hearing was dedicated to a single event: a massacre which took place at Langa township on March 21 1985 when ... ... that may cause people to feel that they will be uncomfortable sitting out there, even if they themselves, particularly had nothing to do with gross human rights violations. But I think the other reason is that again South African society has been so apathetic. A lot of people just did not know ... ... has had special hearings on youth and war the last few weeks. The last of these will be held in Botshabelo near Bloemfontein tomorrow. The Human Rights Committee of South Africa estimates that at least 4500 youngsters under 21 years old had died in political unrest between 1960 and 1989 ... There are two human rights violations that I have chosen to focus on. There could be many more, but I have decided to focus on those two only. The first is being accused for Khotso House, the explosion there and the second is the torture that my son and I endured in 1990. Mister Adriaan Vlok had ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... I remember pain of a scale that I didn’t think a human being could ever experience. All of us have the capacity to be evil, because these powers are latent in every human being but we also, I believe, have the capacity to be good. ... has not applied for amnesty, members of the Khumalo gang have. And there are many Tokoza residents who have spoken either to the media or to the Human Rights Violations Committee about Bishop Mbekizeni ... We’ve come to the end of this week’s Special Report. The Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee has hearings in Pretoria, Beaufort West and Port Shepstone this coming week and the Amnesty Committee sits in Durban. We’ll meet you again next Sunday with full background reports ... ... and used by the security forces as part of a counter mobilization strategy against the forces fighting for democracy. The Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee sitting in Ermelo in Mpumalanga this week heard the story of one such group, the vicious Black ... |
