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WHITE, KimAge Description ... 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 ... 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 ... 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. We stay north of South Africa’s borders. Tens of thousands of young white South African men fought in Namibia and Angola in the seventies and eighties as national servicemen, the so-called ‘troepies’ on the border were used shamelessly by the government as a way of boosting white patriotism ... Between 1991 and 1994 a number of white farmers on farms neighbouring on Lesotho were murdered brutally. In tonight’s programme we’ll tell you about one of these murders and let the killers explain. We also bring you a special report on the Pondoland uprising of 1960 and give you the substance ... Anybody who is victimized because of his commitment to the struggle is a source of inspiration to us. Especially when it is a white person who belongs to a privileged group who decides to abandon those pleasures and identify himself with the struggle of the oppressed. That has always been a source ... ... // Bophuthatswana, March 1994, the dishonourable death of these three AWB militiamen along a dusty Mafikeng road signifies the demise of militant white supremacy. The former Bophuthatswana was where the Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee had its hearings this week. The jewel ... Gcina Mkhize was one of the young, angry Inkatha supporters who volunteered for training. He told the Commission the trainees were welcomed by white South African soldiers when they arrived at the secret Caprivi base after a clandestine flight. attacked a bus of black commuters in Durban in 1990 killing seven passengers. The applicants said this was a revenge attack for an earlier attack on white pedestrians by youths wearing APLA T-shirts. They chose the bus as a target because it was transporting black people. The Committee granted ... By the time that we enrolled the 30 little black students, there were 64 white students at that stage. So the survival of the school was really placed in jeopardy when they walked out. Actually we had to restart the school. That was the first restart; the second restart was after the bomb. The Truth Commission was surrounded by controversy the last few weeks especially about the allegations of a so-called white liberal clique sidelining blacks. Dr Alex Boraine was accused by the faceless officials of leading an alleged white liberal clique. Archbishop Desmond Tutu responded with an angry statement from his hospital bed saying that the allegation was a personal insult to his leadership. Commissioner Dumisa Ntsebeza said the perceived ... ... wing murderer Hendrik Johannes Slippers. Slippers and a group of fellow AWB members fatally assaulted a black man because he dared to walk in a white suburb after ... Two violent actions by ANC guerrillas shook the foundations of white Pretoria in the 1980s. The Silverton bank seize of January 1980 and the massive car bomb in Church street in May 1983. The Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee focused on these two bloody events in Pretoria this ... But the most dramatic moment of the day came when lawyer Arendse asked Sibaya to walk around the room to see if he could recognize the driver of the white ... Last week two men who murdered a chief imposed on their tribe received amnesty from the Truth Commission. This week the Commission’s Amnesty Committee refused to give amnesty to four murderers, two white and two black. ... of ‘guys and dolls,’ of super cool, of cutting edge. It was a time of no constraints in a time of chains as legislation slowly disinherited non-white people of their rights they band together in Sophiatown and were free. It was the best of times. The importance of Sophiatown was not only in ... ... widely hailed as the mother of the nation. She was renowned for her courage and indomitable spirit. And in the 1970s she became a martyr when the white government banished her to a remote town called Brandfort. She was callously treated. On return to Soweto in 1985 it was as a heroine. Sir ... will … away, not you and me. // I truly respect you feelings and I do apologise for what happened. It’s not that I’ve done that because I hate white people but because of the circumstances at that point in time. My duty was to pursuit the aims and objectives of my organisation, although the ... The development of black business has over the past decades been deliberately stunted. The angry voice of black businessmen this week contradicted many of the interpretations their white counterparts gave of the past. |
