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HUMAN, HSAge Description ... 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 ... On the first day of the Mdansane hearings this past week the Human Rights Violations Committee paid a tribute visit to the Egerton Railway Station, scene of the bloody massacre that took place in 1983 to say a short remembrance prayer for those who untimely lost their lives for supporting a just ... The Amnesty Committee moves to Bloemfontein this coming week and the Human Rights Violations Committee will sit in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. From the Special Report team, goodbye until next Sunday evening at eight. ... strongest visual memories of the Truth and Reconciliation process. And the reburial of these bones serves as a reminder that they belonged to real human beings with sons and daughters and mothers and fathers. Tonight we take you with us to one of these funerals that took place yesterday. There ... Back to this week, the last hearings in Ladybrand. We thought it a good idea at the end of this part of the Truth Commission to give you an idea of a day in the life of the Human Rights Violations Committee. ‘Tony Yengeni Former MK Commander Torture victim.’ // What kind of man that uses a method like this one of the wet bag to people, to other human beings repeatedly and listening to those moans and cries and groans and taken each of those people very near to their deaths, what kind of man are ... ... applications can be dealt with and are being dealt with without the necessity of a public hearing. But wherever there has been a gross violation of human rights there has to be a public hearing. As a result of the extension of the dates we have experienced a large number of applications flowing ... ... UCT and he was once tested. He was unequivocally poisoned with thallium. // Tell me about thallium. Why is it such an efficient poison to use on a human being? // Well, it’s known as the homicide’s dream drug; it’s colourless, it’s odourless, it’s tasteless. The symptoms don’t ... The policy of apartheid has made South Africa much poorer than the country and its people could otherwise have been. Lost and unutilized human potential, wasted resources, people and capital that left the country, growth that did not occur and jobs that were not created; all these, and many more ... A lot of the evidence I have listened to at the Truth Commission hearings were really heartbreaking. But when the testimony is about the human rights violations of children, it is more than disturbing. The Truth Commission recently held special children’s hearings in East London and Bloemfontein. ... the one form of torture described as the worst the world over is that of solitary confinement, where a prisoner is alone 23 hours a day, deprived of human contact, an attack on the mind and the soul. This is the story of Zahrah Narkedien, a former Umkhonto we Sizwe cadre who was confined in a ... This is a place that is known throughout the world for the triumph of the human spirit. It’s out of this place where freedom fighters were going to be crushed. The prison people tell them that in five years time people would have forgotten your names and out of this came Mandela and the ideas ... There are two human rights violations that I have chosen to focus on. There could be many more, but I have decided to focus on those two only. The first is being accused for Khotso house, the explosion there and the second is the torture that my son and I endured in 1990. Mister Adriaan Vlok had ... We were all part of a system sometimes for very good reason, but we all did play some role in upholding the framework of apartheid and therefore the framework that sustained gross violations of human rights. lying or telling half truths or hiding something. The Special Report’s interest in this story lies not with Winnie and who she is or was, but with human rights violations committed in our past. Two boys connected with Madikizela-Mandela were killed in one wild year, 1988. Stompie Seipei was a ... ... // There was torture on a daily basis; there was killing on a daily basis. We just turned into political serial killers. We had no respect for human life and our commanders had absolutely no respect for our lives. // I didn’t know anything. They never said to me you’re going to kill ... ... have had to confront the fact, they’ve heard this coming out of the own mouths of these people now, these unbelievably terribly things for one human being to do to another and to admit it. And to say I hit him on the head with a steel spring, I stabbed him so many times, I burnt the body; ... In the Truth Commission process there are victims and there are perpetrators of human right violations. Patrick Hlongwane was both. // Hlongwane left South Africa in December 1986 to meet with the leadership of the ANC in exile. He had been part of the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation, but ... ... report malpractice. // My immediate plans for when the TRC ends are to go and lecture in the USA for a few months; there are a number of schools of human rights at the universities there and they’re all very interested in hearing about the process, particularly within the health sector and what ... There are two human rights violations that I have chosen to focus on. There could be many more, but I have decided to focus on those two only. The first is being accused for Khotso House, the explosion there and the second is the torture that my son and I endured in 1990. Mister Adriaan Vlok had ... |
