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WHITE, KimAge Description There is an expectation, rightly or wrongly, that accusations or allegations are going to be made against white persons and white government and that may cause people to feel that they will be uncomfortable sitting out there, even if they themselves, particularly had nothing to do with gross human ... ... however should have commenced much earlier, proceeded much more quickly and been achieved much more consistently. Without a shadow of doubt all white South Africans fared very much better than their black compatriots throughout the apartheid decades. So all white South Africans were ... ... 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 ... the only people cynical about the Truth Commission process. From conversations, radio talk shows and letters to newspapers, it appears that ordinary white South Africans do not associate with the Commission. In two months of hearings very few white faces could be seen in the public gallery. ... ... 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 ... It is difficult to see my brother in this … like this. I mean it’s hard, it’s hard. There’s nothing I can say at the moment. It’s hard. I cannot even think anymore. If you look at white people, what they have done to our brothers, it’s bad. It’s really bad. could cure ourselves of any type of element, but at the same time also, coming to Intelezi now, Intelezi would be grown in any home. It’s what the white people call ‘flowers,’ but we African call that Intelezi. You may find an ordinary flower when you are entering a traditional home, but it ... The exposures made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission have filled many white people and many of us in the church of England in South Africa with shock, shame and revulsion. Looking back it is amazing that we were so naïve. Be that as it may, the fact of the matter is that we allowed ... in NY1 Gugulethu. The police say they received information of a planned attack and laid a counter ambush. According to the police, seven youths in a white minibus opened fire with small handguns and an AK47. They also threw a hand grenade. The police retaliated by killing all seven. At the ... ... the week before. Tension between police and township inhabitants was running high. Symbolically it came to a head in the buffer zone between white and black ... ... the security door. They killed 31 year old Mrs Gerda van Wyk of New Castle and wounded Mr Chris Malone of Ladysmith. The attackers then fled in a white Toyata ... South Africans, specifically referring to white South Africans in many instances have heard of these atrocities for the first time and they would not understand the future or know where to go in the future if they didn’t get that insight. So in that regard it was good. ... been a visitor to the Mtimkulu household before the detention and disappearance of Siphiwo. // He came here pretending as if he is a priest with a white collar. // He’s putting a bible here, he’s got a collar on, that’s a gun … here. // That’s how he came to trap us, it is only ... I believe that we have now created conditions, the most ideal conditions ever in the history of the country, for black and white South Africans and when I say black I include Indian and coloured communities as well, I include everybody. I think we have created the most ideal conditions for the ... ... terror, even from ’86 onwards because Sipho her son was a UDF member and a spokesperson for the youth. In ’89 Sipho was so severely injured by white policemen and Mama Gabela and Baba Gabela were not allowed to come out of the door. Sipho was in the outbuilding. He was injured so badly, he ... Helena and her husband Andre started the school with 20 children. The De Kock’s were average white Afrikaans South Africans with a dream. // In living in this country we had the desire in our innermost hearts and beings to establish something that we can do well for the whole nation not just for ... ... that. She was totally willing to treat everyone as an equal and she did that openly and freely. Her black friends were as important to her as her white friends. Lindiwe could have been your friend. You did your own cause immeasurable harm by killing her. ... different. This is Mlungisi cemetery where 11 victims of the 1985 Queenstown massacre lie at rest. The trouble began with a consumer boycott against white businesses in August. On the 17th of November, in the run-up to Christmas, the people of Mlungisi gathered at this church for a report back on ... The Committee has also refused amnesty to right winger Johannes Slippers. Slippers killed a black man during a white by night campaign in Belfast in 1990. He is serving a ten year prison sentence for this murder. the people if we are saying that. If probably … // Maybe that is the question. Who should we be reconciling? Are we talking about black people and white people rushing into the streets and hugging each other? // It’s an ambiguous term because if you look at the violence of the past the freedom ... |
