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WHITE, KimAge Description ... 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 ... ... that. She was totally willing to treat everyone as an equal and she did that openly and freely. Her black friends were as important to her as her white friends. Lindiwe could have been your friend. You did your own cause immeasurable harm by killing her. ... ... a special documentary on a group of people in our country that many South Africans haven’t taken proper notice of, the tens of thousands of young white men who were forced by military conscription to wage war in neighbouring states and against their fellow citizens in the townships. Until then, ... ... The dreaded pass book had always determined where black South Africans lived and worked but in the Western Cape the law also reserved the area for white and coloured people only and the law worked. By the sixties all black people were contained in three townships on the edge of the Peninsula ... 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. In 1993 while political ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... had converted to Christianity and started a regular church service in jail. // Not only the three people who had died at Louis Trichardt, but also White and Grobbelaar. This really upset me, and I feel responsible for their deaths, in the sense that I was the leader of the organisation. I ... 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 ... A think a white person should actually come to a hearing, not watch it on TV, not read about it in the newspaper but actually come and share in the process. I think some of the people who have attended hearings have been overwhelmed by what they have felt, by the pain they are seeing, but have also ... The Committee has also refused amnesty to right winger Johannes Slippers. Slippers killed a black man during a white by night campaign in Belfast in 1990. He is serving a ten year prison sentence for this murder. 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. ... 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 ... ... and teaching about the good Samaritan and pointing the finger at others while all the time we should apply the lesson to ourselves. We, the white members of the leadership of our charismatic and Pentecostal churches sincerely seek the forgiveness of our black counterparts within the ... ... borders of South Africa date back to the late sixties with police actions against the Namibian liberation movement, SWAPO and the support given to white Rhodesians in their war against the Zimbabwean liberation movements. And from 1975 until 1989 the South African military fought a bloody war ... look at what went wrong in the past and it stimulates debate among the different groupings called to testify. This week representatives of black and white business as well as very vocal and angry COSATU workers came together in Johannesburg to talk about apartheid and the economy. It was in many ... ... kill him. // On the 8th of November Hester Grobbelaar heard a radio news report of two people who had been shot at Nuni put. They were Jurgens White and her son. The police told her that the two had committed suicide. They also said that a large number of weapons and ammunition were found in ... These words and phrases reflected the general reaction amongst the majority of white South Africans whenever a murder or bomb explosion by terrorists was announced. It was reasonable therefore that members of the security forces would have interpreted a phrase like ”wipe out the terrorists” to ... ... could not recognize him. I want that comrade of mine to come up and be honest and say, and tell a little lie at least to the family, a little white lie and say, we shot him accidentally when we were practicing, we will be satisfied. Why do you cheat me of my brother’s bones? Why do you ... 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 ... |
