NKOSI, S’Bulelo

segment covers the R & R Committee workshop on symbolic reparation held in East London this week. The segment includes a group discussion with Bheki Nkosi from ANCYL, actor Eric Myeni and other young South Africans. ...

The old symbols that we have, they are there, they are symbols, but they represent a particular history and a particular past that has not been associated with respect for human dignity and human rights, they are integrated. What we need are new symbols. // … And I think we should be able to use ...

But the police cover-up was first challenged by Bheki Nkosi who was detained with Stanza at the Hillbrow flat they shared. He told the Bopape family’s lawyers under oath that during interrogation Warrant Officer van der Syfer had told him that Stanza had been killed. // I thought he was trying to ...

If you’re going to build symbols that stand up there and all they do is remind me of my pain… // You’re watching it on TV, you see an old woman telling you that my son was shot and he died right in front of me and to me it just brings back a pain. It cause hatred inside me, you know there’s ...

I knew when the police knocked on the door with the seriousness with which they demonstrated; I knew that this was not an ordinary detention. It had nothing to do with the state of emergency; it was something much more important. Stanza was not an ordinary member of the Civic Association; he was a ...

OK, so let’s work with the reality of here it is, this is what’s happening. OK now all of the things that you guys are talking about: remorse, repentance, material and economic reparation, improving people’s lives, etc. etc. How can gestures on a national level like for instance turning … ...

When the hearings ended late on Wednesday evening, there appeared to be many questions about the Trojan Horse killings that remained unanswered. Survivors and family of the victims say the main questions for them are how to forget the fear they experienced during the attack and how to forgive the ...

... Khayiyane // Abbey More // Patrick Motswaletswale // Basil Zulu // Aaron Makwe // Mzwandile Radebe // Watson Majova // Ndlela Sibiya // Matthews Nkosi // Ruben Letsila // Selby Mavuso // Vuyisile Bhiza // Daniel Nkavinde // Alfred Nkosi // Emmanuel Mzimela // Phila Ndwandwe // Bheki Mkwanasi ...

... He also begged for his life. Mamasela and myself untied him. He asked if he can say something. I agreed to it. He asked if he could sing Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika and he said that we had better kill him. He also claimed that the ANC would govern later, that apartheid could no longer be ...

Bopape begins in 1988 when he was arrested with his friend Bheki Nkosi. He was taken to John Vorster Square and never seen again. The family of Stanza Bopape tried desperately to find out what had happened to him. The police said Stanza Bopape had escaped from custody and three months later the ...

Shortly afterward police again set up a roadblock on this road and this vehicle was also stopped. The driver of the vehicle opened fire with a Russian manufactured pistol. Police returned the fire and the driver and passengers died in a hail of bullets. // According to the official records they ...