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HUMAN, HSAge Description Showing 821 to 840 of 856 First Page•Previous Page 35 •36 •37 •38 •39 •40 •41 •42 •43 Next Page•Last Page... on issues of public interest, focusing largely on reconciliation and amnesty. Invitations were circulated widely amongst academic institutions and human rights organisations in the Peninsula and Boland areas. 2 For example, during the life of the Commission, only one psychiatrist supported by ... assassination in its second submission to the Commission. THE COMMISSION FINDS THAT MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE ANC WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GROSS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS ARISING OUT OF THE SEVERE ILL TREATMENT AND KILLING OF SO-CALLED ‘COLLABORATORS’ – INDIVIDUALS PERCEIVED TO BE WORKING ... ... of Apartheid Legislation1 ■ INTRODUCTION This chronology seeks to record all major apartheid legislation as a context within which gross human rights violations occurred, but is not exhaustive of all legislation passed in the period under consideration by the Truth and Reconciliation ... ... security legislation in South Africa is very convoluted. Only those laws mentioned in the Race Relations Surveys (RRS and SRR) and John Dugard’s Human Rights and the South African Legal Order (1978) are listed. In particular, those laws relating to the tightening up of detention legislation ... ... the elections, KwaZulu and Natal experienced the worst wave of political violence in the region’s history. The incidence of politically motivated human rights violations rose dramatically following the announcement of the election date. 428 IFP supporters are alleged to have launched attacks ... ... (particularly farm workers) expressed disappointment that the Commission’s mandate did not extend, except in exceptional circumstances, to human rights violations relating to land and labour. This was of particular concern in Namaqualand and other areas of the Northern Cape. 3 An issue ... ... AND TWO COUNTS OF DEFEATING THE ENDS OF JUSTICE AGAINST SAP SERGEANT WILLEM DE WET.DE WET IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE PERPETRATION OF THE GROSS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS ARISING FROM THESE UNLAWFUL ACTS. 135 The Trust Feed massacre of 1988 provides a window into the operations of the special ... ... basis with few written records, could not always assist the Commission in this task. 70 Combatants were not the only victims, however. Human rights activists, academics and ideological leaders engaged in legitimate opposition to the state’s policy of apartheid were also targeted ... ... to internal statement taking programmes, freeing staff to work in other areas. Three NGOs were contracted to assist with the programme: Lawyers for Human Rights, through its links with advice offices and the Paralegal Association, covered the eastern half of the province and the Tsitsikama area; ... ... BY INDIAN TRADERS WERE BURNT DOWN AND 500 INDIAN FAMILIES WERE FORCED TO FLEE THE AREA. THE MULTIPLE ACTS OF ARSON AMOUNT TO GROSS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS FOR WHICH UNKNOWN SUPPORTERS OF THE INKATHA MOVEMENT ARE HELD RESPONSIBLE. ... RESULT OF SUCH TRAINING AND INCITEMENT, THE TRAINEES DID IN FACT ENGAGE IN UNLAWFUL ACTS INCLUDING KILLING. SUCH ACTS CONSTITUTE GROSS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS, FOR WHICH WARBER IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE. 42 Black Local Authorities Act No 102 of 1982 The Case of Vusumuzo Khambule The vice-president ... ... had remained fairly independent up until then amalgamated. While members of the Jewish community made their greatest contributions to South African human rights as individuals, some organisations also played a role. During the last years of apartheid, Jews for Justice and Jews for Social Justice ... ... however, that such meetings rarely called into question the policies themselves, but asked only that they be “applied with compassion and humanity.” Positioning itself as “politically neutral”, the leadership of the Baha’i Faith nonetheless also met with officials in private to ... ... dreary, unskilled and humiliating work at very low wages. d The prevailing power structures deprived Africans of opportunities to ‘accumulate’ human capital. e Heavy restrictions on the legal right of Africans to own property and conduct business deprived them of the opportunity to ... ... details about this. Nevertheless, a few comments are in order. Where participation by business in the JMCs resulted in, or facilitated, subsequent human rights abuses by the security establishment, there is a clear case to answer. Where such participation resulted in the channelling of resources ... ... forces. The first reaction to a strike or attempt by unions to organise workers, was all too often to call on the police. Many violations of human rights occurred as a consequence. 94 The submission added that the trade unions survived because of the commitment and organisation of ... ... between the state and the Dutch Reformed Church - approved by both the national synod and Parliament.6 Nico Smith said that many perpetrators of human rights abuses were never challenged by the Dutch Reformed Church but were tacitly or otherwise encouraged in their activities. 37 In its ... ... passed.18 More than logistic problems, such failures represented “a blatant omission and silent approval of the conditions and main cause of human rights violations.”19 Failure to support members who were involved in anti-apartheid activities 63 Faith communities did not necessarily ... ... WERE PERPETRATED AGAINST INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF THE ANC BY THE SAP AND MEMBERS OF OPPOSING POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS WERE GROSS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS FOR WHICH THE SAP IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE. Police farms 201 References in several testimonies before the Commission point to the use of ... ... district surgeons working under the apartheid government probably had one of the most difficult jobs in terms of upholding medical standards and human rights. On the one hand, they were under a statutory obligation to provide medical care for prisoners and detainees, to record information on ... |
