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WHITE, KimAge Description ... 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 ... ... fired three shots at me. As he pointed the gun at me I saw his hand. They were all wearing balaclavas, so I saw his hand and it was definitely a white man or white person. When this car had sped past me, I then ran back home with the intention of telling my parents that some thieves had just ... Let’s turn our attention now to another memory of our past that should not be lost. In the late 1700s the white settlers in South Africa forced slaves to carry identity books so they could control their movement. In some way or another pass books had existed since then, but when the National ... ... 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 ... ... with us in the house. Zenzile was not there. So, they got in there, there were some two or three other black security policemen with them, and some white security policeman. The only one I can remember now is Gideon Niewoudt. Niewoudt had a packet of cigarettes in his shirt, in his pocket in ... ... 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, ... ... our land was conquered and the land wasn’t conquered by the ghosts, by the spirits, invisible beings, it was conquered by the Europeans, by the whites. And we identified the farms as one point at which the fortunes of war will be decided. So now it was a question of conscientising the people ... ... 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 ... and we took the children back. And as we took them back, as we drove into the mission at the crossroads there that’s where we met Ntombela and two white policemen. Ntombela heavily armed with ammunition belts and everything, two white policemen who said nothing, and we just explained to them ... ... 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 ... Nzimeni Bosman was arrested for handing out pamphlets in 1991 in Kimberley. // Then I went into the police station. There were two white guys, I don’t know their names and a police man called Petrus wanted to take my finger prints and he put my head into the toilet seat. When I pulled my head ... ... They live, apparently as if those incidents never happened. They’re not brutalised and brutally beaten up. I mean they were the extension of white law and order into the black community. And they did it more effectively, because they would know where to seek, they would know who to ... ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... ... 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 ... These white men were angry, they were really frightening and they said Mr. Godolozi should be fetched from the cell; he should be brought to the stoep. They brought him, his hands were cuffed and his legs were also cuffed. His face was covered. He was screaming when he went out, saying he was not ... Since the first white people from Europe set foot on the beaches of the Cape of Good Hope 350 years ago race has been at the heart of most of the conflict in our country. Colonialism and later apartheid meant the subjugation of darker skinned people by light skinned people, but this week the Truth ... I don’t know where he emanated from. It was a black man. He was being called by the white man. He lifted his hands up in the air and they took a gun from his waist. They snapped the gun out of his waist. Immediately after that a white man from NY1 just above the restaurants called out saying ... |
