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WHITE, KimAge Description 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 ... ... young South African, fanatically into sport: rugby, soccer, cricket, motor racing the lot. And I knew how vital sport was to the maintenance of the white South African psyche and mystique and morale. And so what I came up with as a young political activist getting involved in the whole exciting ... ... 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 ... 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 ... ... Emotional stress causes his personality to split into two personas, on the one hand the law enforcement officer and on the other hand the so-called white terrorist. This disorder has ironically protected him from developing post-traumatic stress disorder. His extreme memory loss is possibly ... ... 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 ... There were the cynics of course, some called it the crying commission, but often they were white or old allies of apartheid and scared of the guilt that came with hearing the truth, but then there were those who became part of the telling and through that some sort of reconciliation. // ‘You have ... But what about those who fought against white domination? Let’s ask young activists who listened to the Mtimkulu story in the Truth Commission this week. // Siphiwo is a hero. Siphiwo will always be a hero. // This week at the Truth Commission it was a mother’s turn to speak of her son who had ... ... Mokgesi Motheoane testifies that the tip of his penis had to be amputated as a result of torture by the police and a Free State farmer. // This white policeman said - he was a warrant officer, I was able to identify him as a warrant officer. Then he said. This ‘kaffir’ is pretending to be ... These words and phrases reflected the general reaction amongst the majority of white South Africans whenever a murder or bomb explosion by terrorists was announced. It was reasonable therefore that members of the security forces would have interpreted a phrase like ”wipe out the terrorists” to ... ... and teaching about the good Samaritan and pointing the finger at others while all the time we should apply the lesson to ourselves. We, the white members of the leadership of our charismatic and Pentecostal churches sincerely seek the forgiveness of our black counterparts within the ... ... borders of South Africa date back to the late sixties with police actions against the Namibian liberation movement, SWAPO and the support given to white Rhodesians in their war against the Zimbabwean liberation movements. And from 1975 until 1989 the South African military fought a bloody war ... ... every day of my life at Central was in fear. I cannot remember my … teacher’s name, but I can remember on the corner of 14th and Park street white men trying to turn over a 1954 Chevrolet with an elderly black man in it. The fear to this day, I get chill bumps. I did nothing. I went along, ... ... 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. ... 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 ... ... something like this. In the office, yes we’re a rainbow nation and in the taverns and in the pubs it’s something like staff, black people staff white people. And I’m not sure if that is reconciliation. At a personal level, if there were gestures to respond to then perhaps we could work ... ... 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 ... ... could not recognize him. I want that comrade of mine to come up and be honest and say, and tell a little lie at least to the family, a little white lie and say, we shot him accidentally when we were practicing, we will be satisfied. Why do you cheat me of my brother’s bones? Why do you ... ... 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 ... |
