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HUMAN, HSAge Description education who had a simple answer to all opposition: crush it. This week’s Truth Commission hearing in Thohoyandou proved just how well he did it. Human rights abuses in the Bantustans were carried out mainly by its police and army. Tales of severe torture to deaths in detention spanned more ... The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has 17 members and is divided into three committees: the Committee on Human Rights Violations, the Committee on Amnesty and the Committee on Rehabilitation and Reparation. The Committee on Human Rights Violations investigates gross human rights violations, ... ... visit tonight. We report on the bizarre stories of torture brought to the Parys hearings of the Truth Commission but we also focus on a gross human rights violation of the past that did not involve physical violence: Bantu Education. And we bring you a special appeal from Archbishop Desmond ... ... But it is only now as the Truth Commission hears the stories of ordinary people that the full scale of medical complicity becomes clear. Abuse of human rights was not confined to those in uniform. Many doctors and health workers were part of the system of state abuse. Some, simply because they ... I think for the apartheid state to sustain itself it must have realized that it needed a judiciary that was both responsive and sensitive to its needs. By early 1987 brutality of a different kind faced the Bongulethu community. // Something that stood out as quite horrific from this area, apart from many cases of police torture that were reported - in some cases, Supreme Court action was instituted; the large scale detentions without trial that ... Right, let’s get stuck into that. Dr Mandela, we talked about perceptions now, but Mr. Mzizi is bringing up something else – the whole question of reopening of old wounds. He just said the healing had begun but now the Truth Commission has scratched open the wounds. Do you agree with that ... 95% of the people who were sentenced to death in this country were black and a 100% of the people who were sent them to death were white. You were much more likely to receive a death sentence if your victim was white. // ANC activist and lawyer Paula McBride knew and worked with numerous prisoners ... ... members from your particular community seem to be the ones that are appearing for amnesty applications particularly, I’m not talking about the human rights violations side. We’ve tried, as much as we can, when we choose the cases for human rights violations hearings, to try and be as even ... Her medical reality was denied by health professionals. She had severe insulin dependent diabetes and she was told to eat sweets and take sugar. Her treatment was withdrawn at the time that she needed the most assistance. She was left in a coma for days before her death. has come to sit at the back and listen to the testimony, there’s no one who hasn’t been moved to tears, because we’ve had here a wreckage of inhumanity, of the worst things that human beings can do to other human beings. And what we need in our country is to now change because of that, to ... General JJ Viktor is a much decorated South African policeman with 45 years of service behind him. Amongst other achievements he founded the base at Vlakplaas in 1979. In September 1992 he was head of the Ciskei Police Force. // My men and I don’t reflect on the CDF. I was not their commander. My ... I literally didn’t believe it. I thought that not even this government’s that stupid and when it sank in it was a terrible shock and we all, all of his friends, apart from the tragedy of it there was a sense of anger, a lot of anger. // It’s a long time, but it’s like yesterday, because ... ... there was a long public selection and nomination process. I think 3 or 400 people were nominated by various organizations. I was nominated by the Human Rights Committee and it came as a great surprise that I should have been nominated and I never for a moment believed that I would have been ... focus to the hearings at Phokeng, in North West Province. // The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is divided into 3 committees: The Committee on Human Rights Violations, the Committee on Amnesty, and the Committee on Rehabilitation. The Committee on Human Rights Violations listens to victims ... ... And then all he said was ‘sanctions’ and we thought, die kabouter [the dwarf/goblin/pixie]! But what a sweet, good man. He treats me like a human being, not like an enemy. He always kisses my hand and he’s very small so I’ve got to bend and he looks down my dress. But he’s an ... ... take one part of that. I’m speaking to both of you. Should we have treated or should the Truth Commission have treated perpetrators of gross human rights violations on the apartheid government’s side on exactly the same level as perpetrators of gross human rights on the liberation ... ... scope, scale and the nature of those violations. There is a fundamental difference between the two. At the same time I regard any violation of a human right as a violation per se and need to be admitted as having been wrong. On the side of the ANC we accept that during the course of the ... brother they were talking and they were saying, we don’t have any hatred, we forgive the killers. When you saw that, what did you feel? // I’m a human being, I have feelings. It was bad, but unfortunately it already took place, the people are already dead, no matter how I feel now at this ... By lunchtime as the hearings draw to a close the Committee looks back at the Human Rights Violations hearings which started in April last year. // Over these past months we have been taken by victims like yourselves today, we have been taken into what I can only describe as the very heart of ... |
