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WHITE, KimAge Description So I was sent to one guy, he was a Minister of Tourism. I forget his name but in any case. He was in a flat in central Durban and I went to see him one morning on instruction of South African Government which gave instruction to the Bureau of State Security, and I interviewed him, a long interview. ... But across the country the youth, particularly the black youth, rampaged through cities giving vent to their anger. // Nine days after Chris Hani’s slain a mass funeral is held in a Johannesburg stadium. Thousands come to pay their last respects. Millions more watch the funeral live on ... Sophiatown happened almost by accident. The owner of the farm Waterval, one H Tobianski planned a private lease hold township for low income white people. He named the area after his wife, Sophia, but he failed to attract white buyers to the area. It became a place where black people could buy land ... Did you understand that you were going to kill white men on that evening? Was that your understanding? // Yes, I was told that we were going to hit the white men. Everybody knows who the oppressor was. // And did the white man also include young women as well? // According to the education I ... Many white people have embraced the Truth Commission as a way of coming to terms with the past, but so many more white people in general and Afrikaners in particular have been openly hostile and critical towards the Truth Commission. One only has to read the Rapport on Sundays to realize how deep ... These are scenes of white South Africa at war in Angola. For more than 15 years the South African Defence Force and police fought wars in Zimbabwe, Namibia, Angola and Mozambique. Namibia was a South African colony that had to be protected from its liberation movement, SWAPO. Angola was the first ... It is a great irony that while the PAC clearly states that their struggle was against a white oppressor the bullets that came from their guns that night killed only one white person. Three of the dead were not white. ... continue. However those who were in favour of the continuation of the armed struggle won the vote. // An attack in those circumstances against white people, predominantly white people, how was that going to assist in overthrowing the regime? Or how was it going to assist in achieving ... Hello. Welcome to the 63rd edition of the Truth Commission Special Report. On tonight’s programme we look at the brutal racial slays of white people by the PAC’s army APLA during 1993. We talk to victims, survivors, killers and politicians in KwaZulu-Natal and we show you a conversation with ... ... it was not Biko’s refusal to answer questions that led to him being injured or beaten up but simply his determination to remain seated after his white interrogators had ordered him to stand. // Was it your general view that a black man had to obey an order of a white man particularly a white ... In Boitumelong in 1993 the ANC started a consumer boycott of the white town Bloemhof. The Indian community pledged its support. Styles Haffejee, a devout Muslim paid dearly for this. // I noticed a vehicle coming up to our area, the only vehicle for the day, a blue Toyota bakkie. Came in at high ... But what about white fears and suspicions towards the Truth and Reconciliation Commission? // They must understand that this is part of a process of nation building, or bringing two worlds that have been apart together. The white world and the black world, they must come together into one rainbow ... to you a profound apology, ask for your forgiveness and thank you for your extraordinary graciousness and magnanimity. In a strange way I think many white Anglicans in the CPSA owe an apology to the Afrikaner community for their attitude of moral superiority. But our chief expression of apology ... ... a unit with an excellent record of solving crimes has never come up with even a strong lead let alone a murderer. It was rare for the killer of a white person in a white neighbourhood in 1978 not to be apprehended. Even more unusual when the victim was under surveillance, as we know my father ... ... neighbour, witnessed from a window how Sunnyboy and his friend came running to hide in a backyard and his subsequent killing by police. // We saw a white man; he stood next to the bathroom, the bathroom of no 47. I stay at no 48. This white man shot with something. We saw him dragging two of the ... ... his arms and he was talking in Xhosa saying that he’ll take us to where the rest of the group is. One sergeant from the riot unit, he was a white sergeant, said I should shoot this man. And before I shot this man, as he was raising his arms I saw his firearm, and therefore we disarmed ... The 1953 Bantu Education Act, separated schools and curricula for white and black, inferior education for black communities. It began with the National Party’s rise to power and the policies this man, Dr Hendrik F Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid. He was determined to deny black people, ... There is an expectation, rightly or wrongly, that accusations or allegations are going to be made against white persons and white government and that may cause people to feel that they will be uncomfortable sitting out there, even if they themselves, particularly had nothing to do with gross human ... ... which it found itself. Just as apartheid divided people according to colour, so did it divide the church, our church, into a black community and a white community. There was in effect a black church and a white ... of their children, how their children were murdered, that they could have stood up to say. Yes, we are willing to forgive. But when you think of the white woman in King Williamstown who says after she’s been through a hand grenade attack and there’s shrapnel in her body still. She says that ... |
