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WHITE, KimAge Description It was a white person wearing balaclavas. Round the eyes I could see and the nose was a sharp nose and it wasn’t that of our black people. look into ourselves, look into our past and take a vowel and say never again shall we allow this type of things to happen to any one of us, black or white. Never again shall we have policemen and women, or soldiers in our forces who behave in the manner in which the nation suffered this type of ... ... Mayakiso, Mojapelo these people were put in a corner; they ate in a separate canteen with iron plates, iron mugs, iron spoons while their white counterparts ate from porcelain. I found this and I objected to that. I objected very strongly to the fact that black journalists were allowing ... There were the cynics of course, some called it the crying commission, but often they were white or old allies of apartheid and scared of the guilt that came with hearing the truth, but then there were those who became part of the telling and through that some sort of reconciliation. // ‘You have ... ... Emotional stress causes his personality to split into two personas, on the one hand the law enforcement officer and on the other hand the so-called white terrorist. This disorder has ironically protected him from developing post-traumatic stress disorder. His extreme memory loss is possibly ... ... fifteen years after most of the violations had taken place there was still blanket denial from the government. // What we see here, especially from white people, is an attitude of why is it necessary to rake up the past, we don’t want to know about the past, it’s about reconciliation. Let’s ... ... 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 ... ... of the hostel and that’s how I ended up at Wits, in the late 1979 period. I think I was one of four students who were admitted to Wits, four non white students as they were then called. After a long period at Wits, it’s a very difficult period for me because I’ve not being used to mixing ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... behavioural malfunctions of soldiers who had fought in Vietnam. In South Africa it was first called ‘bossies’ after the experiences of mostly white South African soldiers in the bush during the war on our borders. But post traumatic stress disorder is also a condition suffered by many ... Slippers also told the Committee that he’d lost his wife just weeks after the white by night murder. She died in a road accident involving a black motorist. // I hope that the community, especially the family of the deceased can forgive me for what I did to them, the same way I forgave the black ... ... who have problems, think of Sophia Loren at least, you know, the beautiful Italian woman. But let’s think of Sophia Tobianski, the wife of this white person who used to own the whole of the plot upon which this suburb is ... There were the parallel of the ‘purity of race,’ which we had also, the white race to be pure. Katiza took the sjambok and he hit me on the head with the back of the sjambok. One guy came in with a big bottle of Coca Cola and hit us on our knees. By then we had already confessed to being raped by the white reverend, because we couldn’t afford the beating any longer. ... 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 ... ... 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 ... One had a sense that once the victims were stretching out this hand of reconciliation, the white society in general in this province, seemed to be not interested in publicly – perhaps people were feeling it internally, I don’t know – that hurt me very profoundly and made me perhaps to even ... ... 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 ... |
