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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 PageIt is going to be a full week for the Truth Commission. The five policemen’s amnesty hearings start tomorrow in Johannesburg and the Human Rights Violations Committee will hear evidence on the assassination of Natal academic Rick Turner in Durban on Thursday. We’ll meet again next Sunday ... ... 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 ... 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. ... have follow-up sessions with them before we forgot what they said. There are many, many unanswered questions. In the mean time the Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee goes to Durban and Uitenhage this coming week. Our appointment with you is next Sunday at quarter to seven. Good ... ... and blood…I mean it was like an abattoir. And just to see Zola’s body there, you know with these red tartan underpants and he was such a shy human being, you know, gentle, gentle, ... excessive violence. This is probably more true of the Eastern Cape than anywhere else. It was in the Eastern Cape platteland in Grahamstown that the Human Rights Violations Committee of the Truth Commission heard more than 60 of these stories this week. ... ... 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 ... 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. ... in their home spattered with blood all over the place. It was disgusting, brutal, deceitful, treacherous, coldblooded murder.’ // ‘Pieces of human brains was scattered around. That was the end of Bheki. // ‘I think it was the seventh day, I was very hungry. I had no food. They left me in ... ... sought amnesty for 15 violations including murder, attempted murder, torture and arson. Mr. Ngo claims that he committed and witnessed these gross human rights violations throughout the 1980s whilst working as a security police informer and then as a security policeman. Ngo’s application ... People who must have an opportunity to register their regret at not preventing human rights violations and also to give them an opportunity to register their commitment to reconciliation. ... a number of places. Now that document was sent by a Major-General. Kuhn of Crime Intelligence Service. // You’re saying you were framed then as a human rights lawyer and not now as a truth commissioner. // Exactly. What I’m saying is even then there were allegations that were made about how I ... We have identified about 250 individual cases of gross human rights violations in the region. // By 1980 South Africa was surrounded by unfriendly neighbours. Most of the frontline states played host to the liberation movements who kept personnel bases and transit camps as close to home as they ... Falati has however been accused by Winnie Mandela of also being involved in human rights violations. // My hands are not dripping with the blood of the African children. I’ve never compromised my comrades. I’ve never even compromised her. I went to prison for her as my leader. // She in effect ... the brutal terror waged by right wing thugs in the Western Transvaal of the late eighties and early nineties. We start with the Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations hearings in Klerksdorp. Many black mothers and widows told the Truth Commission that they would only be able to make peace ... There have been many women before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Till now they have been in the background speaking mainly about human rights violations against loved ones. This week, a special session in Cape Town was dedicated to hearing the stories of women who have been directly ... ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... ... happened. I ask the Almighty that I will not forget what happened and that I need to know.’ // I remember pain of a scale that I didn’t think a human being could ever experience. I remember going into darkness. // ‘They left 12 month old Phoenix traumatized and alone with her dead mother in ... |
