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HUMAN, HSAge Description Showing 201 to 220 of 340 First Page•Previous Page 7 •8 •9 •10 •11 •12 •13 •14 •15 Next Page•Last Page... means. The Truth Commission then asked him. How does one achieve power constitutionally if one does not have a vote and is denied basic human rights? This is De Klerk’s response. ”The answer is that, in the end, all of the people were empowered and enfranchised through ... For three days this week the Uitenhage town hall was filled to capacity as people came to observe and participate in the work of the TRC’s Human Rights Violations Committee. On Tuesday the hearing was dedicated to a single event: a massacre which took place at Langa township on March 21 1985 when ... ... that may cause people to feel that they will be uncomfortable sitting out there, even if they themselves, particularly had nothing to do with gross human rights violations. But I think the other reason is that again South African society has been so apathetic. A lot of people just did not know ... Well, our position is very simple. As regular viewers of this programme will know by now the Special Report on Truth and Reconciliation deals with human rights violations of the past. We have never and will never treat violations differently because a particular individual has been implicated. The ... ‘Ashley Forbes, Former MK Commander, Torture victim.’ // Do you remember saying to me that you are able to treat me like an animal or like a human being and that how you treated me depended on whether I cooperated or not? // I can’t remember it correctly sir, but I would concede I may have ... 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 ... ... brutalized during the conflict of the apartheid years. For months people from every part of the country poured their hearts out before the TRC’s Human Rights Violations hearings. They told harrowing tales of pain, suffering, loss, murder, torture; but they also asked the Truth Commission for ... turning a blind eye to police brutality and torture. This past week the Truth Commission had a special hearing in Cape Town highlighting some of the human rights violations committed in South Africa’s medical profession in the ... ... 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 ... ... and used by the security forces as part of a counter mobilization strategy against the forces fighting for democracy. The Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee sitting in Ermelo in Mpumalanga this week heard the story of one such group, the vicious Black ... ... out the Truth Commission is the forum to vent this kind of frustration. On to the men in blue. It is probably safe to say that the majority of human rights violations committed the last three decades were the work of members of the former South African Police Force. Several former police ... No, I’m not sorry for what I did. Like I said in the past, I’m sorry for the people, for the waste of human life. Because say for instance we killed another 2000, there was no difference in the outcome of this whole political incident. During the 13 months of human rights violations hearings of the Truth Commission a large number of women gave testimony. Most of them came as the wives or mothers of victims, but it has become clear that women suffered in a different way. While torture and abuse happened to most political ... 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 ... ... that victims have gone through would be completely unacceptable. So, the TRC process is very much victim orientated in that respect. And so the Human Rights Violations Committee identifies victims, so does the Amnesty Committee. But having identified victims, it is for the Reparation and ... ... to come. According to the Truth Commission the register will give South Africans the chance to express their regret at failing to prevent human rights violations and to demonstrate their commitment to reconciliation. If you’re interested go to your nearest Truth Commission office ... ... were in flames. Umlazi was no exception. Here, on the night of 8 August in the Umlazi Cinema a memorial service was held for Victoria Mxenge. A human rights lawyer and community leader, she was loved and respected until she was shot and hacked to death by four unknown men outside her house a ... ... total population think it will bring about reconciliation and only less than 20 percent, one fifth, thinks that the people who had suffered gross human rights violations would be prepared to forgive or forget. The majority of people, this is the entire population, feel that people will become ... ... 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. ... |
