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HUMAN, HSAge Description ... 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 ... 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 ... ... 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 ... Most of the evidence brought to the Truth Commission in the last 11 months concerned human rights violations in the 1980s. But resistance to white minority rule started many decades ago and we as South Africans should remember the early struggles of our people. That is what the Truth Commission’s ... ... where we had a fascist system in the country, detention without trial, where there was no democracy, when apartheid was regarded as a crime against humanity. It was a time when we youth activists had become radicalised, we had been in and out of detention, assaulted by police, harassed. It’s a ... Before the break we saw what those who violated human rights stand to gain from the Truth Commission process. But certainly those who survived these violations and the families of those who did not are more important. The new democratic government, actually we as a nation, has a moral ... ... and Parliament are discussing their final decision on reparations which they are likely to make only after we have closed down. Secondly, the Human Rights Violations Committee of the TRC is making findings on each of the more than 20 000 statements which you have made to us. The Committee ... ... involvement of Mrs. Mandela and members of the football club. These have been in statements made by victims who have come forward to complain about human rights violations. Mrs. Mandela herself at all times while she was subpoenaed called for a public inquiry and the Commission was quite pleased ... ... that this week’s health hearing was just a small step in a long process of healing, which should be followed up by the medical profession and human rights organisations. // If we achieve anything through this process I do hope that we insure that human beings are never again treated like ... Welcome back. The Truth Commission has the task of investigating gross human rights violations in our past. Some of these violations happened to communities and are hard to investigate as individual human rights violations, like the forced removal of black people who lived in areas where the ... ... and Rehabilitation Committee says the state has a moral obligation to compensate each and every South African who qualifies as a victim of a gross human rights violation. While human rights violations and amnesty hearings dominated the headlines in the past year and a half the Reparation and ... ... we have seen that this is a traumatic experience for victims and a very uncomfortable one for those who were responsible for or associated with the human rights abuses. We saw that again the last two weeks. Last week we had the secret graves of security police victims uncovered and this week the ... ... prince Hernus Kriel this week said the National Party should start boycotting the Truth Commission. We stay in KwaZulu-Natal, but we move on the human rights violations hearings in Empangeni this week. After almost six months of testimony before the Truth Commission most of us have become ... for the pain to stop it is necessary to take leave of the bones and the body, to bid farewell to the only real reminder of a life that is gone. // A human being is not an animal, a beast, to be killed and your bones just lie somewhere in the open. We say we’ll hold a service somewhere. People ... The Amnesty Committee and the Human Rights Violations Committee will sit in Cape Town this coming week and there will be human rights violations hearings in Piet Retief, Ermelo and Standerton. We’re also preparing a documentary on child victims of our bitter conflict. So until next Sunday, good ... ... have, they are there, they are symbols, but they represent a particular history and a particular past that has not been associated with respect for human dignity and human rights, they are integrated. What we need are new symbols. // … And I think we should be able to use our tragedies, if we ... ... you know how it feels? Can you imagine how it feels to bury the brain tissue of your own son of eight years old? Can you imagine what it does to a human being? How does one become human again after such an experience? Three days after the explosion my wife died. Jaco did not get better. He died ... Every country that is an active signatory of the human rights agenda was approached and every one turned him down. John …. Turned him down despite my personal pleadings and far more importantly, despite the fact that this was human rights asylum seeker material, without a shadow of a doubt. ... did not speak out enough against racist attitudes amongst our church members; did not speak out enough against impairment of people’s true, human dignity. During the Soweto riots of 1976 and in line countrywide unrest that followed, vague resolutions were passed concerning the state of ... If prisoners kill each other, stab each other, they’re always on my neck. They’re always fighting and saying we don’t respect the human rights of prisoners. And when we start to restrain and start to develop prisoners so they should stop aggressive behaviour then we don’t respect the human ... |
