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VAN WYK, LeonAge Description We were actually restricted not to sort of take pictures at that time when that happened, when we heard the Archbishop sort of broke down. We all flied out of there, which was the media room to try to get pictures of it. With the result, we got there and it was all over and done with. But then I ... I am now more than ever convinced that apartheid was a terrible mistake that blighted our land. South Africans did not listen to the laughing and the crying of each other. I’m sorry that I have been so hard of hearing for such a long time. But the truth of where the bones of Stanza Bopape lie will only emerge in the second round of amnesty hearings later this year. Brigadier Schalk Visser and Capt Leon van Logellen have applied for amnesty for the disposal of Stanza’s body. We’ve come to the end of tonight’s report. This coming week we’ll see former cabinet ministers like Pik Botha, Adriaan Vlok, Magnus Malan, Leon Wessels and Roelf Meyer testifying before the Truth Commission’s special hearing on the inner workings of the State Security Council that ... Leon Muller has been covering the Truth Commission since day one. That first emotional day in East London when nobody knew what to expect until victim after victim started pouring out their gut wrenching stories, the day the Archbishop himself was overcome with emotion. ‘After the break… // Leon Wessels crosses the Rubicon // Looking back at human rights violations // The Intelezi Shield.’ To exiled South Africans living in neighbouring states, it only meant death and destruction. This is the tragic story of Jaquiline Quin, her husband Leon Meyer, also known as Joe, their daughter, Phoenix and a close family Quin. The place, a suburb of Maseru, the time 4 days before Christmas, ... ... if slowly the Afrikaner establishment is realizing the wisdom of working with the Truth Commission rather than against it. Apart from Pik Botha and Leon Wessels 127 Nasionale Pers journalists made a presentation to the Truth Commission against the wishes of their bosses. We have had a very ... quantities of ammunition. It was also Basie Smit that decorated the Vlakplaas death squad when they came back from the operation in Lesotho in which Leon Meyer and Jackie Quin were gunned down in December 1985. What we know of these two men might well only be the tip of the iceberg. When they ... ... minds of Archbishop Tutu and his team this week. They”d gathered former State Security Council members Pik Botha, Adriaan Vlok, Roelf Meyer and Leon Wessels to get straight answers. Was the State Security Council a shadow cabinet? What were its precise powers? Did it formulate and order ... The police star for bravery for the brutal slaughter of unarmed and defenceless people. Last month this programme focused on the murder of Leon Meyer and his wife Jackie in Maseru in 1985. This week, Meyer’s sister brought her grief and her frustration to the Truth Commission in Pretoria. ... life in this country. // I’m married. My wife’s name is Elda, she works at the University of Natal and we have two children Rosa and Leon who are 13 and 11 and we are a very close family. // We try to bring up our children in the same way that my parents brought up me and my ... The news bulletin never mentioned who the policemen were: convicted murderer Col Eugene de Kock and his Vlakplaas death squad. As always the men didn’t take any prisoners; no survivors to tell the tale of death. A former Vlakplaas policeman Sergeant Leon Flores told us his version of the incident. And then there was Leon Wessels. Wessels has been a leading ‘verligte’ [liberal] in the National Party since the 1980s. He was the first prominent National Party politician to formally and comprehensively apologise for apartheid back in 1991. After the negotiated settlement he played a leading ... ‘Maseru Lesotho December 1985’ // Nine people died in this attack. Among the dead was Jackie Quinn whose family testified at the TRC in 1996. // I feel that as long as the people up top who gave the order are exposed, that it’s going to help a lot. If we can find out, it must be somebody in ... |
