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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 PageThese were all human rights violations stories we’ve listened to so far. That is what the Truth Commission has been concentrating on in its first six months. The Truth Commission has now entered a new phase, a phase where the perpetrators rather than the victims will get prominence. If one looks ... 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 ... ... // If I look back at what happened, at apartheid and now then I am sorry about what happened to your parents and to you, because it was a waste of human life. I’m sorry for ... ... Only these police officers brave the bone chilling cold; they’ve been on duty through the night keeping watch over the town hall where the last Human Rights Violations hearing is to be held. // ‘Botshabelo Location 7:00 am’ // My name is Thamsanqa Mfazwe. I am staying here at Botshabelo C ... ... of the men in whose custody Steve Biko died and at the Truth Commission process through the lenses of photographers. But we also investigate human rights violations of a very different kind, the young white men who had to fight the politicians’ war on South Africa’s borders. To Port ... ... 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 ... ... their fate consists of Judge Mall, Judge Wilson, Judge Mwepe, Attorney Sisi Khampepe and Advocate Chris de Jager. The five policemen say all the human rights violations they’re guilty of were committed with a political motive and with the express or implied authority of the then South ... ... 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 ... Last night’s explosion at Glen Ashley in Durban… // // The Swimmers were also proud of their skill at detonating bombs without loss of human life. In 1987 and 1988 the unit frequently crossed over into Swaziland for extra military training. ... colleagues should take his advice seriously to cooperate with the Truth Commission. More than one of them have been implicated directly in gross human rights violations and there are only 20 days left before the deadline for applications for amnesty. After 14 December they would be vulnerable ... 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 ... ‘Ladies and gentlemen welcome to Port Elizabeth’ // We’ve just touched down here in the Eastern Cape where the Truth Commission held its first Human Rights Violations hearings in April last year. The Special Report team hopes to speak to some of the first victims who told their stories to the ... ... 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 ... Next week will be the Truth Commission’s busiest week so far. There will be amnesty hearings in Kroonstad, and human rights violations hearings in Queenstown, Pietermaritzburg and Soweto. June 16 1976 will be the theme of a special hearing in Soweto’s Regina Mundi Church on Monday and Tuesday. ... ... others that I carry in my heart will be as simply and publicly made by him and others as I have now again myself done. I know that because we are human beings and therefore sinners that we shall still hurt each other even tomorrow. I nevertheless apologise for the past hurts and I do so also on ... ... We did not oppose this. We said yes we all want to know the truth. Yes, we differ in the method how we establish the truth. And we felt that if a human being, a person like the clergy people, could be the people that would probably engineer or facilitate this; the very clergy people were the ... 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 ... 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. ... the Act also talks about. For me it’s extremely symbolic of the re-integration the Act also talks about the Act talks about the restoration of human rights. But it’s actually the awakening of the person who found himself dead, so many of these people. One gets the impression that after the ... I remember pain of a scale that I didn’t think a human being could ever experience. |
