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HUMAN, HS

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Was injured when MK operatives detonated an explosive in a car outside the South African Air Force (SAAF) headquarters in Church Street, Pretoria, on 20 May 1983. Twenty one people were killed and two hundred and seventeen injured. The overall commander of MK’s Special Operations Unit and two MK operatives were granted amnesty (AC/2001/003 and AC/2001/023). See Church Street Bombing, Bombing, Pretoria.

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reality of life in KwaZulu-Natal in the last decade has left many thousands dead. In areas like the south coast around Port Shepstone the concept of human rights has become as strange as killing has become familiar. People there are tired of the conflict. Yet when the Truth Commission visited Port ...
... 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 ...
Benzien still serving as a captain in our police service? In next Sunday’s Special Report we bring you a full account of this week’s hearings on human rights violations in our prisons the last few decades and a profile on a veteran of struggle that many of our young people do not know about, ...
... take part in the Truth Commission process. That is why we did not hear the voice of a single IFP victim of the bitter conflict in Bruntville at the human rights violations this ...
... Again, paying different salaries determined by race to people doing the same job was blatantly discriminatory and was an obvious violation of our human ...
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.
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... submission that I shall make here is not an assault on the ANC as a movement but something to point out some of the atrocities and the violation of human rights by some of the members of the ANC in exile. In 1989 we heard he was in detention in Lusaka. The South African Council of Churches gave ...
... 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 ...
of the AWB and seven ANC members – all of them convicted murderers – will ask the Amnesty Committee in Potchefstroom to free them from jail. The Human Rights Violations Committee is having a special hearing into the Bisho massacre of September 1992 with some top politicians giving evidence. ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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.
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