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WHITE, KimAge Description ... 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 ... ... 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 ... Sophiatown happened almost by accident. The owner of the farm Waterval, H Tobianski planned a private lease hold township for low income whites. He named the area after his wife, Sophia, but he failed to attract buyers to the area or white buyers anyway. Sophiatown became an area where black people ... If you want to know whether white judges who went onto the bench had, across the spectrum, a range of views which white people in South Africa entertained I wouldn’t have thought it was necessary to ask me that question. The answer is rather too self evident. 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 that they could control their movements. In some way or another pass books had existed since then. But when the ... ... massacre a middle aged Cape Town gardener with a standard two education, Bennet Sibaya, claimed he had seen young black men loading weapons into a white Audi in Gugulethu, an hour or so after the massacre. The type of car and registration number correspond with that of the Truth Commission’s ... ... and executed their first and last operation at Wesselsdal farm. // When we arrived there I knocked at the door together with my comrades and a white lady came, that is the wife of Mr. Smith. We asked her where was her husband. We are there to request petrol. We didn’t wait for a long time, ... In 1976 Simon Farisani became the first black dean of Beuster House, established by white Lutheran missionaries a century before. // The message was simple, that apartheid was seen … it came from the devil and all serious people must pull their resources to support the freedom struggle of our ... ... this country. We want peace in this country. That is very important to us, because our husbands were fighting for peace for everybody, black and white. // Freedom. // Now if they don’t give us the truth, what do we expect? He must tell everything he knows everything. We are here to say ... ... Town of Belfast. He told the Amnesty Committee how he’d received an instruction from his superiors to participate in the AWB’s so-called ‘white by night’ operation. // The streets of white residents would be patrolled from 9 pm in the evening and that all blacks will be removed from ... ... to the Administration Board. In front of us there is a huge gathering of blacks. They are from the ‘old guard.’ They can be identified by their white head-cloths and arm-bands. Major Odendaal is now busy talking to the blacks. // It is still Monday 9 June. The time is 03:14 in the afternoon. ... 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 ... 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 ... ... Congress. APLA has been operating for decades, but it really only became well known in 1992 and 1993 when it launched a large number of attacks on white civilian targets, isolated farms in areas bordering Lesotho, the St James Church and Heidelberg tavern in Cape Town and the golf club in King ... ... even at its most powerful, was only a small part of the overall economy. The most powerful businesses and industries continued to be controlled by white English speaking businessmen. In general they denied that apartheid served them or they apartheid and pointed instead at the past Afrikaner ... While operation ‘Great Storm’ was in process on the Free State and Eastern Cape platteland, a white policeman shot and killed a black man arrested for killing an aged couple on a farm outside Kroonstad. The policeman asked for amnesty in Bloemfontein this week because he says he killed in ... 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 ... torture and death. A searing collective hurt in Cape Town to this day remains the death of District Six. On 11 February 1966 P W Botha declared it a white area and its tight knit community was scattered to the wastelands of the Cape ... ... even their self respect was taken away. So those people therefore that took that away, they don’t exist anymore. Now, you cannot blame all the white people in this country for that and say they did it because they didn’t do it, I mean most of them didn’t do it knowingly at the time. But ... 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 ... |
