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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 ... 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. 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 ... ... by the divisions in their part of the world. Patrick Morake and a friend were driving to Bloemfontein when his car was attacked near Brandfort by white Afrikaans speaking men wearing khaki clothes. He is convinced that the men who shot at him and his friend were ‘wit wolwe.’ ... The Afrikaners and whites in South Africa has all along been a minority, so the social and the power relations are fundamentally different. That makes at one level the crime of apartheid of white minority rule more extreme. ... 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 ... ... the townships and they had to counter the rising tide of black resistance. They were just soldiers, used and abused by the politicians to keep the white man in power and uphold ... 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 ... The South African Defence Force was never involved in Zimbabwe after its independence in 1980. That is the official version, yet in 1982 three white South African soldiers died on Zimbabwean soil. The SADF had a quick explanation, but could it have been a smoke screen for South African involvement ... 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. In September 1990 four white motorists drove into Kutloanong township near Odendaalsrus. Hours later Anthony Casey, Johannes van Niekerk, Michael Belelie and Shelly Basson were dead, attacked by residents who assumed they were Inkatha supporters. Shelly Basson’s genitals were mutilated and her ... There were the parallel of the ‘purity of race,’ which we had also, the white race to be pure. 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 ... Some judges in the sixties and seventies boasted about the fact that they had sentenced x number of men to death for the rape of white women which was considered the most heinous crime ever, but for the rape or murder of black women, there was one judge who boasted he had never sentenced anybody to ... ... 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 ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... |
