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WHITE, KimAge Description ... 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, ... ... then she pulled out the tray. At the time it was marked ‘unknown’ and when she pulled him out I saw him he had blood all over him and he had a white shirt, but it had bullet holes all over in fact it was just ... Also a time to discuss forgiveness, versus justice. The need for the truth, white fears and the role of the Truth Commission. On Wednesday night we joined Siphiwo Mtimkulu’s former comrades and friends to debate and discuss these issues. They are all former or current members of the South African ... this opportunity, as I did at my amnesty hearing to say to the community I’m sorry for what has happened to them. // Let me say that it is not the white man, we created the mud that enabled him to divide us, we created this mud, so we should clean ourselves because we are responsible for the ... ... It was a violent system of government which denied the majority of people their basic freedom and dignity and granted special privileges to white people. During this time of oppression and the often violent opposition to it the public morality of our people were fundamentally undermined. ... ... go to New Castle, and fire arms are already New Castle, and when we arrive in New Castle we’ll attack places which are usually frequented by white ... ... 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 ... The Commission has documented volumes on the activities of white policemen who were hated and feared in the townships, but this week in Grahamstown it was the actions of the black municipal policemen known as kitskonstabels that came under the spotlight. // These municipal police, we know who they ... ... 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 ... ... the state then was that this was an example of African brutality. The truth we know now is that this repulsive form of killing was first started by white Rhodesian security forces in the 1970s and then brought to South Africa by the security police. Policemen burnt Siphiwo Mtimkulu, and Topsy ... Our newspaper’s staffs were generally too white and in the critical editorial area black staff began to be introduced on any serious scale only during the 1970s. It’s also our view that our company’s newspapers made insufficient attempts to generate news from disadvantaged communities and we ... ... when these killings happened, the PAC had set in motion a campaign called ‘Operation Great Storm.’ It was a war campaign. The main target was white ... But you ended up killing people who are not regarded as white. Could this be regarded as a botched or a messed up operation? // Sir, I cannot comment on that. We were told to go to the tavern …. I don’t know how to respond to your statement. 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 ... My impression with great piety your honour, my impression was that he was extremely militant because of the conflict of the black ideology and the white really came to the fore. // He was a leader among the people involved in the schools unrest. He was also responsible for chasing pupils out of the ... ... the security door. They killed 31 year old Mrs Gerda van Wyk of New Castle and wounded Mr Chris Malone of Ladysmith. The attackers then fled in a white Toyata ... South Africans, specifically referring to white South Africans in many instances have heard of these atrocities for the first time and they would not understand the future or know where to go in the future if they didn’t get that insight. So in that regard it was good. ... been a visitor to the Mtimkulu household before the detention and disappearance of Siphiwo. // He came here pretending as if he is a priest with a white collar. // He’s putting a bible here, he’s got a collar on, that’s a gun … here. // That’s how he came to trap us, it is only ... We’ve come to the end of tonight’s programme. Our team is preparing a documentary on the experiences of young white soldiers who were conscripted into the old Defence Force. If you want to share your experience, please contact Annelies Burgess by fax or e-mail. Until next Sunday good night. in a place where there’s people of all races and all ages, particularly younger people, the future of the nation. It doesn’t matter being black, white, yellow, whatever, we’re not having that discussion, that is very good as it is now. But it is the new people that will continue with the ... |
