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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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... // When people look at the work of the Commission they should remember that within a two year period we’ve changed the discourse forever about human rights violations and nobody will deny that they took place. Initially when victims told their stories people were disbelieving. Now that we ...
... 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 ...
to separate races and enforce white rule. The dompas was born. It ruled the lives of millions of black adults until 1986. It was the greatest single human rights violation in our past. ...
... these strategies of fermenting so-called black on black violence. The Truth Commission resumes its hearings this coming week with a sitting of the Human Rights Violations Committee in Klerksdorp and Duncan Village in East London. And our appointment with you is next Sunday evening at quarter to ...
The Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee will hold hearings at the University of Western Cape in Belville this week as well as in Sebokeng in the Vaal Triangle. In our report next Sunday we will have special features on women and torture and the Boipatong massacre of June 1992. ...
... The people of the homeland mobilized for their freedom but Mangope’s security forces did not let go easily. At the Truth Commission’s human rights violations hearing in Northwest Province this past week Solly Bokaba, a student leader at the time, told about the savage attack on him ...
At the Human Rights Violations Special Hearing for children in Bloemfontein last month TRC Committee members Mr. Ilan Lex and Professor S’mangele Magwaza heard how children was subjected to abuse other than torture or detention or shooting. They heard of widespread abuse of children on farms.
... 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 ...
... the first time he begged Madikizela-Mandela for more information about his son. The last time was when he appeared before the Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations ...
... the armed struggle, from the point of view of the liberation movements, was morally legitimate, necessary and justified, but we paid a cost in our humanity for doing the things we did and of course where we too from the side of the liberation movements abused human rights, we too have the shame ...
... in the end when the report came out the report stated, this woman’s husband has disappeared on this date and he has been found to be a victim of human rights violations. But she already knew that. She got no further truth from that case. She already knew exactly what the commission wrote, ...
... would bring about acceptable results for all in the country as it didn’t do. Separate development in the end meant social engineering with brutal human costs and enormous wastage of ...
... by SAPS that they’ve made available to us that have caused; I think all of us to say. My God, can this be true? Is this the extent to which the human race has allowed itself to ...
... I go home, the normality of a family life, the fact that I still have to be a mother, a wife, helps me to deal with the fact that I am not a super human being, I’m an ordinary person. But I don’t sleep very well, so I’ll read till the early hours of the morning and I accept that that’s ...
Attacking soft targets or civilians was never ANC policy. Mbeki said the death of civilians could not be seen as a gross human rights violation if they died in the crossfire of a just war.
Innocent victims of the massacre, like Mrs Francis Joli, and Lindiswa Ngwenya told the Human Rights Violations Committee how they were mistreated after they had been caught in the crossfire. // I heard gunshots and I fell down, due to the gunshots. I don’t know who did this. I tried to ask for ...
... backbone of the National Party their confession before the people of Paarl and Stellenbosch was a meaningful milestone in the Commission’s human rights violations ...
Midnight last night was the deadline for amnesty applications. Perpetrators of gross human rights violations who did not submit their applications by last night will now be liable for civil prosecution and civil claims. By last night more than 7000 amnesty applications had been received. Amongst ...
A large part of the Truth Commission’s activities revolve around human rights abuses by the policemen and soldiers of the former government. But there’s another chapter of brutality, one that has not been closed properly, the bloody conflict between supporters of the ANC and the IFP. That is ...
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