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WHITE, KimAge Description ... school was the combination of endless problems Helena de Kock experienced right from the start. The government, the Klerksdorp city council and the white community seemed determined to see them fail. They could not register the school until they had 20 white children. The city council would not ... 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 ... ... was such that I should go to this place and shoot the people, whether they were students or not was not the criteria, whether they were black or white. We were not fighting a racial war. Nobody was written on the forehead whether he was a white oppressor or black oppressor, an oppressor has no ... Even with FW de Klerk’s reforms education was still racially divided. The National Party continued to spend more and more per rand on white education. By 1989, R2900 on every white child and R650 on a black child. Fourie would like to see him explain his government’s education policy to the ... Matthew Goniwe was going to be transferred back to Graaf-Reinett. He was from Graaf-Reinett, but he was staying here. And now we are going to have a white principal, Mr. Visagie in the high school. That’s when things go upside down, because we didn’t want him to leave. We didn’t want the ... ... from our own people who say reconciliation is only coming from one angle, from those who had to face the brunt of apartheid. // There are some white people who see this as, the Truth Commission as, addressing the needs of black people in this country, without a doubt. And that’s something ... ... the residents against any threats. You were there to protect, not to attack, not to kill. // It was necessary because at that time we regarded the white people as our enemies. // Do you remember the evidence that was led at the trial? // Yes, I do remember. // A red bakkie cut off the white ... Exiled and angry. Hain hurled himself into anti-apartheid activity. He attacked the core of white South Africa’s white identity: sports. // ‘How about rugby? Did you know that that great South African institution was invented by the English back in 1823 and where would Vrystaat be without it? ... ... to go out and prepare the groundwork for APLA and to make the township ungovernable I regarded this as an instruction to also harm, injure and kill white people. When I saw that the driver of the vehicle which we had stoned and which had come to a standstill was a white person I immediately asked ... ... had to stop them. The governor called on the national guard not to protect the students but to block their entrance to school and threatening white students jeered them at every turn. Finally the black students were allowed to enter the school through a side door and the white mob erupted ... ... before, I didn’t know that we were going to attack a church. I didn’t know that the target was a church, but I felt as I’ve said before the whites were also using churches to oppress the blacks. They took our country using churches and bibles as we are reading the history, we as the ... ... the primary target of the landmine operations. This arose, Chairperson, out of what the regime was doing at the time when it incorporated areas: white farms and white farmers in the border areas into its defensive network. You will remember that there were even moneys granted to farmers to ... They then asked me why are you sleeping with a white Reverend? I then asked him, how do you mean, can you please elaborate your question? How it comes for you to allow you to have sex with a Reverend, a white Reverend? I said no, it didn’t happen to me. I know nothing about that. ... 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 ... ... violence you’re attempting to give an explanation of the causes, but it’s as useful as explaining the causes of the Serbian Bosnian conflict as white on white ... ... about her concern for the soldiers who fought on both sides of the apartheid struggle. She specifically referred to the soldiers who fought the white government’s war in neigbouring states. Earlier this year we showed you a programme on the scars left on the soldiers who fought in South ... ... iron pipe I noticed that blood was oozing from the old man’s nostrils and ears as well as the mouth. And I saw the old man’s eyes turning into white pupils, they were turning. It was as if he was fainting or just about to die. The beatings went on and on until I saw the old man lying ... ... Because prior to that I had been in the army. I had spent a year in the army and I didn’t question my role, I thought that’s what young white men did and I went to the army without any moral question marks hanging over me. After the army I went to university and I think there I ... Joining me now are three of the white students who admit in one form or another to being part of that ugliness in Little Rock. This is Ann Burleson as she appeared… in ’57 she was chanting the words ‘2, 4, 6, 8 we don’t want to integrate’ and Anne says she is now ashamed of that school ... Besides the apologies, denials and analysis of what went wrong one of the most outstanding features was white business saying that apartheid was bad for the economy and black business blaming their white counterparts for taking capital out of the country. |
