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HUMAN, HSAge Description 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 ... ... 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 ... On the 15th of April last year the Truth and Reconciliation Commission held its very first hearing, it was a session of the Human Rights Violations Committee. This Committee had its last hearing this past week in the Eastern Free State. In the 14 months of Human Rights Violations hearings some 2000 ... 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 ... 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. ... on high profile cases like you are doing with the police? // Yes, I must correct the view that we have not been doing any investigations of those human rights violations cases that have been brought to our attention relevant to ANC people. There have been ongoing investigations. In fact, as you ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... set on a pedestal and beyond criticism. I can quite understand the importance of their independence, but they speak as if they are not first of all human beings, human beings who are formed by the society in which they live. But there are people who came out of homes that regarded black people as ... 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 ... 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 ... Let’s turn to something completely different now. The amnesty process is about perpetrators of human rights violations. The other side of the truth and reconciliation process is about their victims. How do we compensate them for their hurts and losses? On a practical level we should look at ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... have this capacity to forgive, this magnanimity and the dignity that is being affirmed. We are asked by the Act to help in the rehabilitation of the human and civil dignity and I have seen it happen and it has been a great privilege to be part of this process. // These are people who for so long ... ... down on paper, on record, on tape as factual evidence. When in fact it is not factual evidence as such. It is one person’s side of the story. And human people can err, and human people are not all very honest. And I will be … I don’t think I’m wrong if I say, all the stories that are told ... ... 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 ... |
