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WHITE, KimAge Description Showing 201 to 220 of 281 First Page•Previous Page 7 •8 •9 •10 •11 •12 •13 •14 •15 Next Page•Last Pagelook 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 ... There were shots and people were crying. As I was running a white person said ‘Zulu, capture him, there he is’ and I went straight into the passage. When I got into the passage they couldn’t see me anymore and I heard a loud bang of a gun behind me, seven times. I ran just alongside the ... Slippers also told the Committee that he’d lost his wife just weeks after the white by night murder. She died in a road accident involving a black motorist. // I hope that the community, especially the family of the deceased can forgive me for what I did to them, the same way I forgave the black ... Katiza took the sjambok and he hit me on the head with the back of the sjambok. One guy came in with a big bottle of Coca Cola and hit us on our knees. By then we had already confessed to being raped by the white reverend, because we couldn’t afford the beating any longer. There were the parallel of the ‘purity of race,’ which we had also, the white race to be pure. 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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 ... This is how the far whites’ right wing would start its war on South Africa, by cutting off the country’s power supply and plunging it into darkness. For the Boere Weerstands Beweging war was the only way to halt the future it feared: rule by a majority government. In 1993 while political ... 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. ... Truth Commission process through the lenses of photographers. But we also investigate human rights violations of a very different kind, the young white men who had to fight the politicians’ war on South Africa’s borders. To Port Elizabeth first. The application of the four security ... ... 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 ... ... 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. ... 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. ... no newspaper who would print it. It was almost as if opposition politicians and newspaper editors sensed that this story would crack the façade of white rule. That it would inevitably lead to a total exposé of what apartheid really was, a violent, evil ideology. I was the editor of a ... |
