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SWANEPOEL, JWAge Description of the United Democratic Movement, Roelf Meyer, Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Kader Asmal, and Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church Freek Swanepoel. In the final segment Archbishop Tutu addresses victims and survivors and explains the process of application for urgent interim ... I would say that we are moving, but it is really for me too early to say that we have formed a new morality. We are busy looking at these things. A lot of people are still clinging to the past. A lot of people say, well it is new and everything is new, but there’s not more love and more justice ... I think in the time of apartheid certain groups received certain privileges and was taken away from others. So the moral standard was that if you belonged to a certain group it is good and right for you to have it or to do it, but it was wrong if somebody else did it. I think it showed the wrongs of the past and I think the work of the TRC on the line, certain things can’t again be done in the same manner as in the past. People should act in another way, they should show their love in another way and in that way I think the TRC challenged us and challenged ... We had indeed taught our people wrongly with regard to apartheid as a biblical instruction. If you teach them that this is the way of the Bible, in fact you instruct them how they should act and in this regard certainly the church has confessed that it is guilty and we are experiencing an inner ... The movement for reconciliation is growing in our church on ground level. The church also continually and with empathy focused on the large numbers of people who were unjustly disadvantaged during the times of apartheid and to assist them in their poverty and suffering. A lack of understanding and ... Officer Ramasoeu, Warrant Officer Tsoametsi, Warrant Officer Gillian, Warrant Officer Koch, Sergeant Mamome, Warrant Officer Cronje, Warrant Officer Swanepoel, Constable Motsamae, and myself and Constable ... ‘On Interrogation…’ // I had two sort of major sets of interrogation. The first was the old statue one, draw a line and Swanepoel sat there with the various other people and said ‘Jy gaan praat’ [You will talk] and you know you stand there until you talk. And within, I think maybe it ... Then the big moment arrived. After months of infighting and debate NG Kerk moderator Freek Swanepoel finally faced the TRC. He immediately declared that he could not speak for all the members of his church. ... part of your body, so that when you are hit with that even in the gentlest of slaps sucks your skin into that hole until it is total agony. Colonel Swanepoel, the notorious ‘Rooi roos’ [red rose] was there, Johan Coetzee was there, Van der Berg was there, 1964 … was in the room when I was ... |
