JIM, Richard

Is it correct that the people that beat Stompie were Mrs. Mandela, Katiza, Slash and yourself? // Yes, but there are others. Everybody who was there participated as well as the other members of the Mandela United Football Club.

I was one of five brothers and sisters. My parents are devout Catholics. My grandparents immigrated here from Ireland, came here as poor immigrants and I was brought up in a large Catholic family. And myself, my brothers and sisters all went to Catholic schools and I think that’s where I can date ...

I was going to see my relatives, because I didn’t see them since I was young. Now I went with Mr. Motasi, because we are together, we are friends. I ask him to accompany me to go there so that I can know my history. // He was laughing and he was spinning his gun like this and he said. You see, ...

Okay the question is then did General Malan know about the cross border raids into those three towns which have been mentioned before they took place? // The Defence Force request was that this operation should be executed the second half of April. They approached me, I approached the state ...

Let me introduce you to Jann Turner, daughter of the prominent 1970s activist Dr Rick Turner, who was assassinated in 1978. Jann was with him when he died. // Jann, why did you make this film we’re about to show? // Well, it wasn’t really until 1989 when Jacques Pauw first revealed the death ...

Katiza Cebekhulu says he saw Madikizela-Mandela stab Stompie with a shiny object one night but Jerry Richardson had a different version. He said Mommy had ordered him to get rid of Stompie. // I did the same with him. I slaughtered him. I slaughtered him like a goat. // And how did you do that? // ...

For me it came as a huge surprise, even to be nominated because 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 ...

I’ve always tried to wash this sort of thing off me after a hearing by just doing things that I like doing, some exercise, go surfing something like that. It doesn’t really work. I found that and other colleagues of mine have found that they’ve become very stressed, very withdrawn, withdrawn ...

I’m not sure whether we will hear more from these particular policemen who have applied for amnesty but I certainly think this is not all that happened in this province.

We certainly don’t have a mandate to make any impact on the educational system or the absence of a proper educational system, we simply don’t have the mandate or the finance to do that other than to draw attention to it and to include that sort of material in our report to the government in ...

We were round about at the flats when the police came chasing out and they were chasing a group of people and shooting. Certain incidents during [inaudible] told me that we must get out of the way, that we should move to the flats. I ran into one flat and he ran into another one. I heard some ...

It’s very difficult for us to make any impact on that lost generation as it were other than to include the stories and the contextual material in our report.

Were there cases in which special forces cooperated with the police in eliminating people i.e. killing people in accordance with the plan that you testified to before lunch. // That is correct. // And are those the matters in respect of which you have applied for amnesty? // That is correct. // ...

Rick Turner was a teacher and trade unionist in Durban in the early 1970s. He was assassinated in January in 1978. His daughter, Jann is a filmmaker and tonight we show you a film she made about her father’s life and death. But first we go to Bloemfontein, birth place of the African National ...

I found Richard sleeping in the lounge here on the floor. His head was right here, he was shot in the ear and pieces of his skull they were on the floor and some of his brain was on the floor. So I left Richard again, rushed to the bedroom, looking for Tshidiso. I found that Tshidiso’s bedroom ...

I found Richard sleeping in the lounge here on the floor. His head was right here. He was shot in the ear and pieces of his skull, they were on the floor and some of his brain was on the floor. So, I left Richard again, rushed to the bedroom looking for Tsidiso. I find that Tsidiso’s bedroom was ...

Sergeant Richard Motasi was a diligent policeman with no record of complaint against him in 11 years’ service, but in September 1984 he was hit on the ear by a Colonel. That started a series of events that eventually led to his death.

Richard Lyster was born to a Catholic family in Durban in 1953 and has lived in Kwazulu-Natal for most of his life.

... us to go out of the cell. I was taken to cell number 3 in that police station. And I believe it’s after two days that a certain lawyer called Richard Spoor, he was in the firm of Priscilla Janna. Then he asked me, do I know that Sipho has died. I was affected. Then I said I don’t believe ...

Paul van Vuuren, one of the five policemen implicated in Richard and Busisiwe Motasi’s murder offered to meet Thsidiso. // Hi Tshidiso, how are you? // I’m fine. // I’m glad to hear that. // This is Mandla, his cousin. // Hello Mandla, how are you? // Alright. // Listen let me tell you, all ...