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HUMAN, HSAge Description 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 ... This is how we build a new culture of respect for human rights and dignity, to expose the evils of the past so that we are vigilant to never allow it again. We don’t seem to be doing all that well on this score. One of Chief Seremane’s torturers is today a senior manager in the National ... ... 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 ... ... We did not oppose this. We said yes we all want to know the truth. Yes, we differ in the method how we establish the truth. And we felt that if a human being, a person like the clergy people, could be the people that would probably engineer or facilitate this; the very clergy people were the ... 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 ... ... 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. ... ... brought democracy and peace to our country, or perhaps I should say to the largest part of our country. Because in KwaZulu-Natal the slaughter of human beings continue unabated. Third force activities and divide and rule policies by former governments are perhaps part of the reasons for the ... ... virtual no-go zones for the security forces. On the edge of East London, Duncan Village was simmering. The assassination of community leader and human rights leader, Victoria Mxenge was the spark that ignited a Powder Keg of discontent. It led to a fortnight of battles between the people and ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... There’s more than one South Africa. There is the South Africa of the cities and towns and then there is traditional South Africa, the areas formerly called homelands, like most of the Northern Province where the Human Rights Violations Committee sat this week. 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. ... ... anybody had for a moment forgotten why South Africa needed a Commission for truth and reconciliation, four days of stories of harrowing cruelty and human suffering before the Commission’s hearing in Nelspruit this week was a sober reminder. Tonight we let survivors and family of victims of ... ... 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 ... |
