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WHITE, KimAge Description ... 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, ... And the ‘them and us’ philosophy will never work for this country and there has been very, very little reconciliation on the part of white people in this country, they don’t want to sacrifice, they don’t want to atone and they shift the blame, they don’t want to take responsibility for ... It is difficult to see my brother in this … like this. I mean it’s hard, it’s hard. There’s nothing I can say at the moment. It’s hard. I cannot even think anymore. If you look at white people, what they have done to our brothers, it’s bad. It’s really bad. There had been much speculation in newspapers about possible clashes between large numbers of right wingers and ANC demonstrators. The white people of George were holding their breath and the police were ready for anything. But when the first groups of chanting protestors arrived from the township ... in NY1 Gugulethu. The police say they received information of a planned attack and laid a counter ambush. According to the police, seven youths in a white minibus opened fire with small handguns and an AK47. They also threw a hand grenade. The police retaliated by killing all seven. At the ... ... after misleading the Harms and the McNally Commission. He had no other choice. Why he was then state witness, if you want to stick to black and white, and not David Tshikalanga and Albert Nofemela too, I can’t say. Why, in the Motherwell case, in the Magnus Malan trial, in the Eugene de ... ... The pathologist said he did not bend down - if he had bent down he would still be alive - he was running. And as I walked away two constables, white policemen came to me. They said good afternoon. And I said hello. And then I asked sir, who actually shot my son? They introduced the one as ... But the most dramatic moment of the day came when lawyer Arendse asked Sibaya to walk around the room to see if he could recognize the driver of the white ... ... with black consciousness, black pride; black dignity in South Africa. But the circumstances surrounding his death have always been associated with white police brutality, secrecy and lies. Biko was arrested on the 18th of August 1977 for breaking his banning order. He was held here at the Walmer ... Anybody who is victimized because of his commitment to the struggle is a source of inspiration to us. Especially when it is a white person who belongs to a privileged group who decides to abandon those pleasures and identify himself with the struggle of the oppressed. That has always been a source ... By the time that we enrolled the 30 little black students, there were 64 white students at that stage. So the survival of the school was really placed in jeopardy when they walked out. Actually we had to restart the school. That was the first restart; the second restart was after the bomb. The Truth Commission was surrounded by controversy the last few weeks especially about the allegations of a so-called white liberal clique sidelining blacks. ... The statement that gave rise to the complaint was. // ‘The truth as we now know 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.’ // After having studied additional evidence ... ... erected the first hostels for these workers to ensure a continuous, controlled and cheap labour force. Black men could only stay in the so-called white areas as long as they were employed by whites and they would stay without their families. It was an idea that would become intrinsic in the ... 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 ... 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 ... ... of ‘guys and dolls,’ of super cool, of cutting edge. It was a time of no constraints in a time of chains as legislation slowly disinherited non-white people of their rights they band together in Sophiatown and were free. It was the best of times. The importance of Sophiatown was not only in ... ... 1993. It was the third major assassination attempt on Hani’s life. He was the right wing’s enemy number one and was generally distrusted by white South Africans. Like so often happens, after his death he was widely recognized as a soldier who had become a man of peace, a man of ... I joined the army at a time when there was quite a strong current of opinion among the white left which said that you should never join the SADF. The options at that stage appeared to be though either you left the country permanently or you went to jail. Now, at that time I didn’t regard either ... brought from the manse? // She actually started to hit Kenny. She said Kenny must stand up and then she asked questions. Why are you submitting to a white man? Then she started to hit Kenny and then saying that you’re not fit to live, fit to be alive. // What happened after that? // She hit the ... |
