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HUMAN, HSAge Description Showing 181 to 200 of 340 First Page•Previous Page 6 •7 •8 •9 •10 •11 •12 •13 •14 Next Page•Last Page... 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 ... 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. 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 ... ... 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. ... ... our diverse heritage, when they are inviting to the public and interact with the changes all round them then they will strengthen our attachment to human rights, mutual respect and democracy and help prevent these ever again being violated. ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... they’ll go through the wall if necessary in order to realize their plans, their schemes. Secondly they propounded, I think a policy that was ... ... 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 ... ... races and enforce white rule. The dompas was born. It ruled the lives of millions of black adults until 1986. It was probably the greatest single human rights violation of our ... ... 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. ... 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 ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... This coming week the Human Rights Violations Committee of the Truth Commission will hold its last public hearing. During the past 14 months we have become familiar with the commissioners and Committee members who listen, question and sympathize with the victims at these hearings. Their faces are ... ... 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 ... lying or telling half truths or hiding something. The Special Report’s interest in this story lies not with Winnie and who she is or was, but with human rights violations committed in our past. Two boys connected with Madikizela-Mandela were killed in one wild year, 1988. Stompie Seipei was a ... |
