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HUMAN, HSAge Description You know, we were soldiers at that time and … no, I honestly don’t think I’m evil. Every human being got a skeleton in the cupboard. No, I don’t think I’m evil. ... squabble is the looming elections for a new deputy president for the ANC, but tomorrow’s hearings are only about finding out the truth about past human rights ... 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, ... ... 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 ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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 ... 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. ... 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, ... ... I have four very interesting public personalities in the studio to discuss these questions with me. In Johannesburg is Dr Maki Mandela, director of human resources at Spoornet and Donald Woods, journalist, author and former newspaper editor. In Cape Town we have Mr. Abraham Mzizi, IFP member of ... ... hearing of applications. They also said that the acts applied for by the ANC’s collective application ”did not constitute gross violation of human rights.” // Opposition parties, including the National Party, objected to these findings saying that amnesty could not be granted ... ... 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. 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 ... ... 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 ... ... If I look back at what happened, at apartheid and so on, then I’m sorry about what happened to your parents and to you because it was a waste of human life. I’m sorry for that. I know that you must hate me. I know if somebody killed my parents maybe I would have been much more hateful than ... ... 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 ... ‘After the break… // Leon Wessels crosses the Rubicon // Looking back at human rights violations // The Intelezi Shield.’ |
