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HUMAN, HSAge Description ... 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 ... Yasmin Sooka is a prominent and powerful member of the Truth Commission. She’s Deputy Chairperson of the Human Rights Violations Committee. She has a reputation for being passionate and forthright. ... 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 ... At the Human Rights Violations Special Hearing for children in Bloemfontein last month TRC Committee members Mr. Ilan Lex and Professor S’mangele Magwaza heard how children was subjected to abuse other than torture or detention or shooting. They heard of widespread abuse of children on farms. 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 ... excessive violence. This is probably more true of the Eastern Cape than anywhere else. It was in the Eastern Cape platteland in Grahamstown that the Human Rights Violations Committee of the Truth Commission heard more than 60 of these stories this week. ... ... anybody had for a moment forgotten why South Africa needed a Commission for truth and reconciliation, four days of stories of harrowing cruelty and human suffering before the Commission’s hearing in Nelspruit this week was a sober reminder. Tonight we let survivors and family of victims of ... 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 have identified about 250 individual cases of gross human rights violations in the region. // By 1980 South Africa was surrounded by unfriendly neighbours. Most of the frontline states played host to the liberation movements who kept personnel bases and transit camps as close to home as they ... ... 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 ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... when Stanza Bopape disappeared in 1988. Evil took many shapes in South Africa. Witchcraft expectantly came up during the Pietersburg hearings of the Human Rights Violations Committee. We have a report on that. But first we take you to Pretoria where the Amnesty Committee was introduced to the ... ... 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. Falati has however been accused by Winnie Mandela of also being involved in human rights violations. // My hands are not dripping with the blood of the African children. I’ve never compromised my comrades. I’ve never even compromised her. I went to prison for her as my leader. // She in effect ... ... happened. I ask the Almighty that I will not forget what happened and that I need to know.’ // I remember pain of a scale that I didn’t think a human being could ever experience. I remember going into darkness. // ‘They left 12 month old Phoenix traumatized and alone with her dead mother in ... ... would bring about acceptable results for all in the country as it didn’t do. Separate development in the end meant social engineering with brutal human costs and enormous wastage of ... ... by SAPS that they’ve made available to us that have caused; I think all of us to say. My God, can this be true? Is this the extent to which the human race has allowed itself to ... |
