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HUMAN, HSAge Description Showing 781 to 800 of 856 First Page•Previous Page 35 •36 •37 •38 •39 •40 •41 •42 •43 Next Page•Last Page... There are three main motivational processes: compliance, identification and internalisation. 19 D Foster, ‘Perpetrators of gross violations of human rights’. Paper submitted to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, May 1997. Binding forces a Compliance is a process of going along ... ... settlement, the Interim Constitution and the ensuing legislation required that the amnesty provisions be even-handed, state perpetrators of human rights violations continued to be wary of the Amnesty Committee and the Commission as a whole. 14. A number of factors eventually persuaded ... ... amnesty for the attempted killing of former Vlakplaas commander, Captain Dirk Coetzee. Although the attempt failed, it resulted in the killing of human rights lawyer Bheki Mlangeni. ... ... question of even-handedness in understanding perpetrators from the multiple and varied sides of the struggle. Perpetrators of gross violations of human rights came from all sides: the security forces, military conscripts, the liberation movements and their armed wings, Inkatha and the UDF, from ... ... the array of motives, perspectives and explanations outlined above, let us speculatively apply them in the case of two rather different forms of human rights abuses. Perpetrators’ actions cannot necessarily be understood in terms of the same set of factors. Torturers 141 Although some ... ... National Congress (ANC) and its allies and to consider its intersection with information that emerged through the processes of the Committee on Human Rights Violations (HRVC). 2. Broadly speaking, ANC-related amnesty applications can be divided into a number of categories. The first concerns ... ... by the four youths attacking his house, he fired a shot which fatally wounded twenty-one year old Matan Jonga. 85 Links gave testimony at the human rights violations hearing in Upington on 2-3 October 1996. He related that he was congratulated by his superiors for his first murder and ... ... in which they flower. Much has already been effected through the new Constitution. More remains to be done to cultivate a climate favourable to human rights, in all social institutions. ... ... local activist known to Martins. His brothe r, Mr Mandla Langa, was a writer of note in exile and another broth e r, Mr Pius Langa, was a prominent human rights lawyer involved in defending political activists on trial. MR MARTIN S: I enquired why they had such an instruction and they told me ... ... OF APARTHEID, WITH REGARD TO RECONSTRUCTION AND RECONCILIATION; THE EMPOWERMENT OF BLACK PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED GROSS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS TO MOVE BEYOND ‘VICTIMHOOD’ IN REGAINING THEIR HUMANITY; THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP, THE RULE OF LAW AND THE ‘COMMON ... ... and all-embracing programme is seen as a matter of urgency. Protection of other state witnesses 56 The exposure of politically motivated human rights abuses has only been possible as a result of perpetrators coming forward and “blowing the whistle” on their organisations’ ... ... to take the view that the loss of business and/or income as a result of a politically motivated act did not constitute a gross violation of human rights. However, in the course of our work, we became aware that such losses were significant. The Commission therefore recommends that: THE ... ... CHOSE TO PROVIDE DIRECT SUPPORT FOR APARTHEID AND THE ACTIVITIES OF THE SECURITY FORCES, MANY OF WHICH LED DIRECTLY TO GROSS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS. THE RACISM THAT PERVADED MOST OF WHITE SOCIETY PERMEATED THE MEDIA INDUSTRY. The judiciary 158 The longevity of apartheid was in ... ... claim against corporations like Anglo American would be based on the extent to which decades of profits were based on systematic violations of human rights. In legal terms, this could be based on the principle of ‘unjust enrichment’. ‘Unjust enrichment’ is a source of legal ... ... had not been linked to the national electrical grid. 41. The politics of racial segregation and apartheid suppressed for decades both the human rights and the consumer demands of South Africa’s black people. People living in low-income black residential areas, both urban and rural, ... ... time frame within which it had to complete its work, the Commission was not obliged to give prior notice to any person who might be implicated in a human rights violations hearing. It did, however, stipulate that when a negative or detrimental finding against an implicated person was being ... ... actions had caused. 5 In making its findings, the Commission drew on a wide range of evidence. Apart from over 21 000 statements on violations of human rights, it considered the evidence contained in numerous submissions, amnesty applications and other documents to which it had access. ... ... means of violence. 25 Regarding questions about the brutal enforcement of labour, consumer and student boycotts that involved gross violations of human rights, the UDF submission argued that such acts should be seen against – … the background of emergency when most of the UDF leadership ... ... participation, real-life recollections of violations and an improvised script that was true to life events. 5. The actors are survivors of gross human rights violations, and indeed only act in the sense that they are on a stage engaged in a performance of their experiences. Their role changes ... ... made it clear that he believed that target information provided by TREWITS was used operationally and led to the commission of gross violations of human rights that included killing. 63 . In 1986, Captain Henri van der Westhuizen, a member of Military Intelligence involved in target ... |
