JIM, Richard

Constitutional Court Judge Richard Goldstone, formerly head of the Goldstone Commission, was appointed the same day to investigate the Ntsebeza matter. This step will probably rescue some of the Truth Commission’s credibility, but how much will it help Ntsebeza? Only now, after the damage to his ...

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

exile. Ill treatment, paranoia, torture and executions in ANC camps in neighbouring states. But first the story of Tshidiso Motasi. In 1987 Sergeant Richard Motasi and his wife Busisiwe were murdered by a police hit squad. The policemen claim they were ordered to kill their colleague because he ...

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 ...

put up a terrible fight, made a lot of noise and the moment I managed to restrain him we shot him and we left the house. // After we struggled with Richard Motasi and Capt Hechter placed the pillow over his head and I shot him four times with an AK47 rifle, before this incident I’d never met ...

Victims of police attacks did not always have famous names. Richard Carolissen and his brother ran into a block of flats to escape a police shooting in a Stellenbosch township in 1976. That’s where Ronald Carolissen was shot dead in cold blood.

After we struggled with Richard Motasi and Captain Hechter had placed the pillow over his head and I shot him four times with an AK 47 rifle...

The most surprising and exciting moment in Richard Lyster’s life was when he heard the news that he had been appointed to join the Truth Commission.

... existence of the so-called third force. The revelations came to light at a joint news conference by state president FW de Klerk and mister Justice Richard Goldstone yesterday. // The 36 page interim report contained allegations involving top police officials including deputy police commissioner ...

APLA as a unit, that is APLA high command, is shouldering responsibility of all the activities that took place since its inception in 1961 till the cut-off date that is May 1994.

St. James today looks like any other church in the suburbs. Inside its quiet, sun slanting down onto pews, hymn books neatly arranged for the next service. On Sundays more than a thousand people file into its vast interior, but on a stormy Sunday’s night in July four years ago, shortly after the ...