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WHITE, KimAge Description ... this country. We want peace in this country. That is very important to us, because our husbands were fighting for peace for everybody, black and white. // Freedom. // Now if they don’t give us the truth, what do we expect? He must tell everything he knows everything. We are here to say ... ... most other towns dotted across this vast landscape, carries its battle scars from the past. The first dates back to false rumours of an attack on white inhabitants of the town in 1968. The other took place almost 20 years later when an entire family became the target of another rumour campaign, ... an attempt to bomb the surgery. The third attempt on their lives by gunmen on the first of December was successful. // There were two blacks and one white person and a third black was waiting in the getaway car, but I won’t be able to identify them to say, if I see them, these are ... ... to the ground. In its place came Triomf, ‘triumph’, victory. The sterile clean streets that emerged from the rubble was indeed a triumph for white rule. Sophiatown’s spirit was broken, its people were dispersed. But today in an era which perhaps strives to regain the free, non racial ... that says reconciliation lies in the fact that the victims can actually speak in front of the nation and reconcile themselves, it’s not entirely a white black thing, or a former government and victim thing. Reconciliation could mean victims get the truth out, speak in front of the nation and ... ... the townships and they had to counter the rising tide of black resistance. They were just soldiers, used and abused by the politicians to keep the white man in power and uphold ... ... you did fell short of what you should have done in the circumstances. But why? // The overwhelming majority of attorneys in private practice were white males as you set it out in Paragraph 3 of the summary. The suggestion that what really happened was that these people were beneficiaries of the ... ... at the SABC’s role as chief propagandists of the state, the police spies who infiltrated newspapers, the experiences of black journalists in a white dominated environment and the response of the media bosses. Let’s look at the SABC first. Television came to South Africa only in 1976. While ... ... say and when you move it that way it’s different, it’s a different story altogether. What I’m saying is we need to reach a country where even white people can actually celebrate those people. ... ... His killers say they killed him because he was a leading communist and MK leader. Indeed, Hani was probably among the top five people most hated by white South Africans. The apartheid state tried to kill him several times, but after his death even those who hated him came to appreciate that not ... ... something like this. In the office, yes we’re a rainbow nation and in the taverns and in the pubs it’s something like staff, black people staff white people. And I’m not sure if that is reconciliation. At a personal level, if there were gestures to respond to then perhaps we could work ... She was the first one to start beating us one by one with fists. She asked us to come to her one by one and asked you. Why are you sleeping with the white reverend? And then the minute you said you wanted to answer, then she start beating you. So we were screaming a lot and they were singing while ... ... on farms and in small towns some were preparing for a different future. The Boere Weerstands Beweging (BWB), a paramilitary offshoot of the white right wing was planning war. While most were anticipating a majority government, the BWB was stockpiling food and arms for battle against the ... The Afrikaners and whites in South Africa has all along been a minority, so the social and the power relations are fundamentally different. That makes at one level the crime of apartheid of white minority rule more extreme. ... in George next month. The Truth Commission focused on the State Security Council because that was the body, rather than the cabinet of the white Parliament, that determined policy and strategy in the turbulent 1980s, almost a government inside a government. The council effectively took ... ... every day of my life at Central was in fear. I cannot remember my … teacher’s name, but I can remember on the corner of 14th and Park street white men trying to turn over a 1954 Chevrolet with an elderly black man in it. The fear to this day, I get chill bumps. I did nothing. I went along, ... But what about those who fought against white domination? Let’s ask young activists who listened to the Mtimkulu story in the Truth Commission this week. // Siphiwo is a hero. Siphiwo will always be a hero. // This week at the Truth Commission it was a mother’s turn to speak of her son who had ... ... by the divisions in their part of the world. Patrick Morake and a friend were driving to Bloemfontein when his car was attacked near Brandfort by white Afrikaans speaking men wearing khaki clothes. He is convinced that the men who shot at him and his friend were ‘wit wolwe.’ ... Some judges in the sixties and seventies boasted about the fact that they had sentenced x number of men to death for the rape of white women which was considered the most heinous crime ever, but for the rape or murder of black women, there was one judge who boasted he had never sentenced anybody to ... This is how the far whites’ right wing would start its war on South Africa, by cutting off the country’s power supply and plunging it into darkness. For the Boere Weerstands Beweging war was the only way to halt the future it feared: rule by a majority government. 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