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HUMAN, HSAge Description Showing 261 to 280 of 340 First Page•Previous Page 9 •10 •11 •12 •13 •14 •15 •16 •17 Next Page•Last PageWe’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 ... ... 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. ... ... night vigil. I understand my brother was abducted but when people who came to give their last respect and be mowed down like that. I mean, a normal human being cannot do that, unless somebody’s been hired, trained, to do ... ... war. A real pity there wasn’t a truth commission in Zimbabwe after their liberation. This coming week there will be two days of hearings about human rights abuses in the health sector with case studies like the torture, treatment and death of Steven Biko. We’ll meet against next Sunday. ... ... have been granted and 39 refused. But the process is not only about hearings. Amnesty applications that do not concern the gross violation of human rights can be processed on paper. These include crimes like the illegal possession of firearms or public violence. Often applications also fall ... ... to the effect that anyone who has been convicted of having committed a criminal offence, which amounts to a gross violation of a person’s human rights, should not be regarded as fit to hold public ... 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 ... Most of you who have followed this programme since April 1996 will have seen the Truth Commissioner with the greying beard and the sympathetic face. Our Truth Commission profile today is of Dr Fazel Randera, Deputy Chairperson of the Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee. ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... de Kock and he is not at all what we thought he would be like. We also introduce you to a woman who explains what solitary confinement does to the human mind and we tell you more about the poisoning of activists by the police and their army in the late 1980s. And at the end of tonight’s report ... ... He survived Bantu education, student politics during the seventies and eighties as well as torture. This week he told his story to the TRC’s Human Rights Violations Committee, but he’d like to see the Truth Commission do more than simply record the experiences of black ... the Truth Commission be able to cope with what will be demanding of it in ’97? // We are supposed to give as complete a picture as possible of the human rights violations and I think we’ll be able to do that. But it seems to me we are going to be snowed under, we are being already, in the ... In April last year the widows of these three men asked the Human Rights Violations Committee to find out what had happened to their husbands since their disappearance in 1985. This week they got some answers. Former Eastern Cape Security Policemen Harold Snyman, Hermanus du Plessis, Johan van Zyl, ... ... completed than others. And some of them will need some facilitation to get there and to complete that process. It is possible, just because the human being has the power within himself to cope with real adverse situations. It is definitely possible for people to get there. It will be easier ... [The ANC is a barbaric organisation that does not care for the destruction of human lives] // Vlok, the letter stated, also supported the 22 men. He’s also about to be subpoenaed by the Truth Commission. It is expected that most of the remaining 16 men on the list will follow with amnesty ... Truth Commission Vice Chairman Alex Boraine said afterwards his Commission will start summoning perpetrators of human rights violations from the end of this month to give evidence and those who decline the invitation will be subpoenaed. This hopefully means a more active role for the Truth ... ... we’d like to support any form of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee because till today inside the prison walls there are gross violations of human rights taking place. I can just think about doctors covering up certain things, there’s fraud in death certificates, those are things we know ... But there was another evil in our past, human rights violations inside the ANC’s detention camps in Angola. We’ll take a good look at that too tonight. Let’s first go inside the cells of death. |
