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HUMAN, HSAge Description Showing 301 to 320 of 340 First Page•Previous Page 9 •10 •11 •12 •13 •14 •15 •16 •17 Next Page•Last PageThe AWB will be with us again next week when six jailed AWB men ask for amnesty from the Truth Commission in Pretoria. Our team will also attend the Human Rights Violation session in Pietersburg. So let’s make an appointment for next Sunday evening at quarter to seven. Good night. ... In fact it’s a sort of microcosm for the greater good of South Africa. // The importance of the Amnesty Committee’s process as opposed to the Human Rights Violations Committee is that that is the forum where the perpetrator meets the victim and the family members of the victim and that’s ... ... time. Thank you very much for all your contributions. Next week we go back to our normal format with reports on the amnesty hearings in Gauteng and human rights violations hearings in Grahamstown and the Northern Province. Good ... Many former policemen were involved in violations of human rights during the apartheid years. Only a few can tell the broader story of what happened and why. Foremost amongst these is Craig Williamson. Tonight we bring you a background report and an interview with the once famous superspy. We have ... ... all the circumstances that the assault was an act associated with a political motive. Before we go a last, very important matter. Victims of gross human rights violations in the period covered by the Truth Commission are entitled to reparation, but they will only qualify if they complete the ... … // Then if we take what you say further all the politicians should have applied for amnesty in these cases where killings were a result or gross human rights violations were a result of these kinds of actions? // I listened to what my former colleague, Pik Botha said here this morning. ... of jail on Friday when the Truth Commission granted them amnesty. Before we tell you their story and what the verdict means to other perpetrators of human rights violations lets remind ourselves of how the process ... ... you with scenes of Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Doctor Alex Boraine at the Vrouemonument in Bloemfontein this week. Monument to one of the biggest human rights violations in our history, the death of more than 26 000 women and children in British concentration camps. From our team, good night. ... I think apartheid was built upon all that is obscene and disgusting in us as human beings. I think that we know that in our individual journey there is always a battle that goes on between good and evil. ... We also visit the killing fields of KwaZulu-Natal where the depths of hatred and brutality again surprised this past week. And we remind you that human rights violations were not the monopoly of the apartheid state. We hear the story of one man’s suffering in the ANC’s camps in Angola. But ... This coming week the Human Rights Violations Committee of the Truth Commission will hold its last public hearing. During the past 14 months we have become familiar with the commissioners and Committee members who listen, question and sympathize with the victims at these hearings. Their faces are ... ... of things. // ‘Community Reparation’ // The fourth component is community reparation and we’re looking there at not only the victims of gross human rights violations but at the victims of apartheid as a whole. And we are placing on the agenda of a number of ministries like welfare, health, ... At one of the first human rights violations hearings last year, self confessed police spy, Pat Hlongwane told the Commission how he was tortured by senior ANC officials. This is what he said. ... question has been asked many many times by the Truth Commission the last few months. Did the State Security Council order the gross violations of human rights by policemen and soldiers like assassinations, torture and massacres? And, did they know of these violations committed by the security ... ... some of the stories he told about the distorted kind of humour which they had and how easy it was for them to resort to brutalities. Now these are human beings, these are people like you and me; how did it come about that people should behave in the way in which these people behaved? How did ... ... I didn’t know what to do. And through a serendipitous circle of events and speaking to family members I was put in touch with Halton Cheadle, a human rights lawyer who did a lot of labour work in Port Elizabeth. And he came to see me and said, look you can carry on being the good doctor and ... 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, ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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 ... |
