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WHITE, KimAge Description ... motivated attack. Piet Botha, Adriaan Smuts and Eugene Marais had executed the attack. They wanted to kill black people in revenge for an attack on white pedestrians on the Durban beach front by youths wearing APLA t-shirts earlier that ... 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 ... ... is concerned and double standards or a multiple of standards were applied, depending from which side of the community you came. I mean there was white preferential positions on the one side and prejudices on the other side. And all of those had to be linked into the question of separation; it ... ... him on his head and he … and he fell. // At about five o’ clock in the afternoon, towards sunset whilst I was waiting there with my kids,this white lady came together with the doctor who attended to my husband, doctor Benning, who gave me more tablets and after that he said, Mrs. Maseko, ... attacked a bus of black commuters in Durban in 1990 killing seven passengers. The applicants said this was a revenge attack for an earlier attack on white pedestrians by youths wearing APLA T-shirts. They chose the bus as a target because it was transporting black people. The Committee granted ... ... 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 ... ... massacre a middle aged Cape Town gardener with a standard two education, Bennet Sibaya, claimed he had seen young black men loading weapons into a white Audi in Gugulethu, an hour or so after the massacre. The type of car and registration number correspond with that of the Truth Commission’s ... ... had to terrorise the majority to accept its subjugation. They had to terrorise not only South African blacks, but they had to terrorise every white who stood up to join the blacks in the democratic struggle and they had to terrorise the whole of Southern ... ... to the Administration Board. In front of us there is a huge gathering of blacks. They are from the ‘old guard.’ They can be identified by their white head-cloths and arm-bands. Major Odendaal is now busy talking to the blacks. // It is still Monday 9 June. The time is 03:14 in the afternoon. ... ... and executed their first and last operation at Wesselsdal farm. // When we arrived there I knocked at the door together with my comrades and a white lady came, that is the wife of Mr. Smith. We asked her where was her husband. We are there to request petrol. We didn’t wait for a long time, ... ... // Bophuthatswana, March 1994, the dishonourable death of these three AWB militiamen along a dusty Mafikeng road signifies the demise of militant white supremacy. The former Bophuthatswana was where the Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee had its hearings this week. The jewel ... 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 ... ... 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 ... Most of the evidence brought to the Truth Commission in the last 11 months concerned human rights violations in the 1980s. But resistance to white minority rule started many decades ago and we as South Africans should remember the early struggles of our people. That is what the Truth Commission’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 ... ... year sentence for his part in the killings of the four victims. Evidence leading the trial indicated that the murders were particularly brutal. The white woman was raped, her eyes gouged out and one of her breasts was hacked off. She was then set alight. Sekgopa said he couldn’t remember those ... For the past three days the TRC have heard how all South Africans, black and white, big business and workers, were all freedom fighters for liberation. We have also heard about the fact that business were victims of apartheid and have never benefitted from it. Furthermore, that they are not a ... 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 ... ... 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 ... |
