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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 Page... 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 ... ... 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 ... moordenaars wat nie omgee vir die vernietiging van menselewens nie.’ [The ANC is a barbaric organisation that does not care for the destruction of human ... ... fire on commuters on their way to work, the reason being they had opted for trains and not use the government owned buses at the time. At the last human rights violations hearing in Mdansane, Eastern Cape the Commission heard how people had been shot at in the dark after showing solidarity with ... ... 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 ... ... without the truth? // Without the truth there would be no reconciliation. Now what happened, the Act goes as far back as saying that even the human rights violation that took place outside the country. When are we going to start hearing about the Quatro camps and many other camps outside ... ‘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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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 ... ... the Act also talks about. For me it’s extremely symbolic of the re-integration the Act also talks about the Act talks about the restoration of human rights. But it’s actually the awakening of the person who found himself dead, so many of these people. One gets the impression that after the ... I remember pain of a scale that I didn’t think a human being could ever experience. All of us have the capacity to be evil, because these powers are latent in every human being but we also, I believe, have the capacity to be good. ... 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. ... Last year the Truth Commission heard numerous stories of human rights violations committed in Bloemfontein by the security police and their surrogates in gangs like the Three Millions and The Eagles. But this year has seen very few policemen or the gangsters they handled coming forward to tell the ... ... Only these police officers brave the bone chilling cold; they’ve been on duty through the night keeping watch over the town hall where the last Human Rights Violations hearing is to be held. // ‘Botshabelo Location 7:00 am’ // My name is Thamsanqa Mfazwe. I am staying here at Botshabelo C ... ... bag over the head or decide to work for the security police with benefits like proper pay and a luxury life on Vlakplaas. So it’s obvious, it’s human that you would choose the easy way ... |
