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HUMAN, HSAge Description 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 ... ... 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 ... To the human rights violations hearings in the Free State town of Parys now. We have listened to many painful stories the last year, but what really stood out at the Parys hearings were the bizarre and inhumane methods of torture used by the police and the comrades during the 1980s and 1990s. While the Truth Commission is limited to the exposure of gross violations of human rights, apartheid was far more than detention without trial, torture and death. A searing collective hurt in Cape Town to this day remains the death of District Six. On 11 February 1966 P W Botha declared it a white ... ... course Gauteng saw a special hearing of the Truth Commission on the Soweto uprising of 1976. But first, we look at the very serious allegations of human rights violations made against two top ANC leaders, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Natal leader, Jacob ... ... that you’ve done to us we are willing to stretch out our hands in reconciliation. Please don’t spurn this opportunity. // But we start with the Human Rights Violations Committee’s last hearings for 1996 held in Denilton in Mpumalanga. Bantustans for black South Africans were an essential ... ... Africa. I recently watched a very moving show on confession and forgiveness that I thought very appropriate to our situation. It is not about gross human rights violations, it is about something we South Africans know very well: racial prejudice and discrimination. In 1954 the United States ... ... 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 ... I personally can perceive no definition of direct human rights violations which could possibly be attributed to business generally during that period. My view is that business could certainly have been seen to be doing more, but whether that would have had any affect on a government determined to ... ... Again, paying different salaries determined by race to people doing the same job was blatantly discriminatory and was an obvious violation of our human ... ... 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 ... ... who had been knocked out in a boxing match; you could see that he was dazed. // We’ve already touched on the fact that you had violated the human rights of the deceased. Today, 20 years after the event, what would your personal feelings be? // Your honour it is my conviction in the depths ... ... The Special Report has been asking that question since our very first broadcast in April 1996 when we showed their widows testifying before the Human Rights Violations Committee. Last week we covered the story of the six men who have applied for amnesty for the killing. This week their ... ... to the effect that anyone who has been convicted of having committed a criminal offence, which amounts to a gross violation of a person’s human rights, should not be regarded as fit to hold public ... Most of you who have followed this programme since April 1996 will have seen the Truth Commissioner with the greying beard and the sympathetic face. Our Truth Commission profile today is of Dr Fazel Randera, Deputy Chairperson of the Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee. ... report next Sunday. But the week after that we’ll be back with an overview of the first amnesty hearings in North West Province and further human rights violations hearings in Port Elizabeth. We’ll see you then. Good ... back on those years and the vicious reaction of the state. We take you back further to the 1960s and the 1970s with moving testimonies by victims of human rights violations. We focus on two other horror stories, a necklacing after a consumer boycott and the St James Church Massacre. But we will ... ... have been granted and 39 refused. But the process is not only about hearings. Amnesty applications that do not concern the gross violation of human rights can be processed on paper. These include crimes like the illegal possession of firearms or public violence. Often applications also fall ... |
