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HUMAN, HSAge Description to separate races and enforce white rule. The dompas was born. It ruled the lives of millions of black adults until 1986. It was the greatest single human rights violation in our past. ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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. The Human Rights Violations Committee visits Paarl in the Boland this coming week and the Amnesty Committee will hear the application of the killer of Trust Feed, Captain Brian Mitchell, in Pietermaritzburg. That means, don’t miss our programme next Sunday. Good night. of any decision taken by cabinet, the State Security Council or any committee, authorising or instructing the commission of such gross violations of human rights. Nor did I individually, directly or indirectly ever suggest, order or authorise any such action. I feel in duty bound to also place on ... ... all the circumstances that the assault was an act associated with a political motive. Before we go a last, very important matter. Victims of gross human rights violations in the period covered by the Truth Commission are entitled to reparation, but they will only qualify if they complete the ... … // 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. ... ... by us. During the time we committed these acts we believed it was right. If I look back today I can see it was a waste of time, money and valuable human lives. It served no purpose. Absolutely nothing. We should rather have stayed at home. Things would have gone better. It served no purpose. It ... ... along a dusty Mafikeng road signifies the demise of militant white supremacy. The former Bophuthatswana was where the Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee had its hearings this week. The jewel and the crown of grand apartheid stood exposed as a brutal, private fiefdom. ... What we were involved in was as I say ‘active sabotage,’ protest sabotage, specifically not to affect people, not to affect human beings, but at the same time to show that there was opposition, that there were people who were opposing. they took the position that the recommendations that went forward was that people should not hold public positions where they were involved in gross human rights violations. // Even if they were fighting a just war? // I don’t have an answer to that particular ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... And out of the blue one day in 1995 Barney Pityana phoned me and said Wendy can the Human Rights Commission nominate you for the TRC? And I said Barney I’d be honoured, but surely there are other people who are far more appropriate and suitable. And he said, no we think you should be on it so I ... Since the completion of Human Rights Violations hearings the work of the R&R Committee has intensified as commissioners look back over all the cases that have come before then in order to make findings about victims and their needs. It’s tiring and sad work, but not entirely without compensation. ... I didn’t really find the practice of law so fulfilling and I tended then to work more with religious organizations and with NGOs involved in human rights work. ... ... still remember what happened. The actual explosion is still … it’s just something with me. I remember pain of a scale that I didn’t think a human being could ever experience. I remember going into darkness, being thrown backwards by the force of the bomb. The exact angle saved my life ... Satirists always get away with murder. Well that’s it for this week. The Human Rights Violations Committee will visit de Aar, Colesberg, Hanover and Welkom this coming week. We look forward to your company next Sunday evening. Good night. ... normal legal protective measures also created circumstances and an atmosphere which were conducive to many of the abuses and transgressions against human rights which forms the basis of the Commission’s present ... |