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WHITE, KimAge Description ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... Namibia. There is no doubt that the death of Anton resulted from a politically motivated assassination. // Lubowski was deeply resented in the white establishment in South Africa and Namibia. Son of an Afrikaner mother of proud Van der Merwe stock, and a German speaking Namibian father, he ... ... Let’s move on. Just before the 1994 election when almost everyone else in the country was preparing for a united democratic South Africa the white right wing was calling for a whites only ‘volkstaat.’ While the rest of the country was talking peace the right wing was threatening war. ... ... 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 ... ... 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. ... 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 ... In 1990, a group of young ultra-right wingers started a long term plan to ensure continued white rule in South Africa. The political leader of the group was Jean du Plessis. His father, Arman du Plessis was a member of the Boere Bervrydings Beweging. He had a strong influence on his son and his ... I was woken by a loud explosion which shook the flat and cracked windowpanes. From the flat window I could see a cloud of grey-white smoke in the vicinity of the Phoenix Railway Lines. From the outside of the block of flats I pinpointed the area where the explosion must have occurred. Whilst doing ... ... boys came in and they told me Ruben has been shot. // I don’t think of anything if ever I was to be employed as a maid I was going to poison the white man’s ... ... Commission the most successful Commission of its kind ever held in the world. Public hearings on issues such as military conscription for young white men, the activities of the State Security Council and the role of the armed wing of the Inkatha Freedom Party will still be held. Tonight we ... ... of the newspaper Vrye Weekblad I also made a submission. There were blunt accusations that racism ran unchecked through the news rooms owned by the white press barons, that the mainstream press kept crucial information away from South Africans and more, that they had actively colluded with an ... ... South Africans are able to see each other’s points of view. To me that would what reconciliation would really be. If could you take, say a young white man and a young black man and let them both understand what motivated the other to do what they did in those years. That would be a symbol of ... ... immediately. He crawled to the neighbour and told her: the Boers killed my wife. He said they spoke Afrikaans. They blackened their bodies but the white skin showed under the shirtsleeves. My brother and his wife did not deserve to die without dignity. He was a loving and concerned person and ... Finca is also deeply disappointed by what he calls the apathetic way in which most white people in this country have responded to the TRC. ... stories is very important. That’s where we started and we have no reason to change our mind about that. The catharsis that has taken place for white and black alike, men and women, old, young, seems to have done something towards the reconciling work that we are committed to. But I think ... ... circles holding court in public and in the media. // Stop interrupting now Mr. Fourie, give me the chance now. I listened to you. Because the white people of South Africa have been deprived of the right to exercise their opposition to what the National Party government is doing at the ... ... That is Bernadette Langford and Lindy Fourie. Mr. Chairman between the two bodies is a cartridge against the panelling of the walls encircled in white chalk, as well as one on the left hand side of one of the ... When she arrived in the room she questioned us, why we allowed a white priest to sleep with us. We did not approve of that and then she asked Stompie why was Stompie selling the people? Stompie disagreed with that kind of information and then she started hitting us with fists, one by one. After ... |
