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WHITE, KimAge Description She said. You dogs, do you sleep with the white reverend? Do you let him fuck you, you dogs? Stompie you work with the police you”re a spy. So Mrs. Mandela started to beat them. Only four months after the assassination of David Webster the most prominent white member of the Namibian liberation movement, Anton Lubowski, was shot and killed in front of his house in Windhoek. One of the men who conspired to kill him, Irish citizen Donald Acheson, was arrested soon after the ... 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 ... 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. ... Emotional stress causes his personality to split into two personas, on the one hand the law enforcement officer and on the other hand the so-called white terrorist. This disorder has ironically protected him from developing post-traumatic stress disorder. His extreme memory loss is possibly ... 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 ... ... still took me some recovering from, because I was hiding my true nature from my Defence Force employers as deeply as I could. I was hiding from the white left just what I was doing. I was hiding what I was doing from my own family. You know you are playing with bonds of confidence and bonds of ... ... and then I handed it over to Mrs. Mandela and then she whipped Stompie. She’s the first to whip Stompie. She’s said he’s sleeping with the white man and Stompie, he walked with the police. And Mrs. Mandela started to whip them and took their foot and the hands and they lift him up and ... ... at the SABC’s role as chief propagandists of the state, the police spies who infiltrated newspapers, the experiences of black journalists in a white dominated environment and the response of the media bosses. Let’s look at the SABC first. Television came to South Africa only in 1976. While ... ... you did fell short of what you should have done in the circumstances. But why? // The overwhelming majority of attorneys in private practice were white males as you set it out in Paragraph 3 of the summary. The suggestion that what really happened was that these people were beneficiaries of the ... ... 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 ... For Elizabeth Lloyd, partner and fellow activist colleague of Neil Aggett who was found hanging from the steel bars of his prison cell in 1981 death was ultimately the objective of detention. Medical doctor and trade unionist Aggett was the first and last white person to die in detention. ... His killers say they killed him because he was a leading communist and MK leader. Indeed, Hani was probably among the top five people most hated by white South Africans. The apartheid state tried to kill him several times, but after his death even those who hated him came to appreciate that not ... ... say and when you move it that way it’s different, it’s a different story altogether. What I’m saying is we need to reach a country where even white people can actually celebrate those people. ... ... Let’s move on. Just before the 1994 election when almost everyone else in the country was preparing for a united democratic South Africa the white right wing was calling for a whites only ‘volkstaat.’ While the rest of the country was talking peace the right wing was threatening war. ... ... Freedom Charter was adopted. This historic document wanted freedom and democracy for all and declared that South Africa belonged to all its people: white and black. ... ... 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, ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... residents were expecting a vigilante attack. Matela claims that he went to go and find the ANC members who were on patrol to alert them that the white people were looking for them. The news spread like wild fire and at some stage a large group of angry residents, fearing that these people were ... |
