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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 ... ... to the task of the Truth Commission and that quite simply is to start a national debate on what should be done for the many, many victims of gross human rights violations. While some perpetrators have already been granted amnesty, victims have not even begun to have their losses restored. What ... ... 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 ... 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, ... 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 ... 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. 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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 ... 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. 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 ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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 ... ... parties who agreed to the settlement that brought us our freedom and democracy four years ago. The Commission has essentially four legs. First the Human Rights Violations hearings which dominated the first few months of the process. Any citizen who had been on the receiving end of a politically ... 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 ... |
