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WHITE, KimAge Description 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 ... ... 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 ... With their greatest battles behind them the war was not yet over. When the number of black students increased the white parents withdrew their children. They ran back to enjoy the privileges of apartheid, because I don’t care who we are, we had a period where all the whites enjoyed the privileges ... ... 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 ... ... a unit with an excellent record of solving crimes has never come up with even a strong lead let alone a murderer. It was rare for the killer of a white person in a white neighbourhood in 1978 not to be apprehended. Even more unusual when the victim was under surveillance, as we know my father ... And the ‘them and us’ philosophy will never work for this country and there has been very, very little reconciliation on the part of white people in this country, they don’t want to sacrifice, they don’t want to atone and they shift the blame, they don’t want to take responsibility for ... I joined the army at a time when there was quite a strong current of opinion among the white left which said that you should never join the SADF. The options at that stage appeared to be though either you left the country permanently or you went to jail. Now, at that time I didn’t regard either ... brought from the manse? // She actually started to hit Kenny. She said Kenny must stand up and then she asked questions. Why are you submitting to a white man? Then she started to hit Kenny and then saying that you’re not fit to live, fit to be alive. // What happened after that? // She hit the ... ... 1993. It was the third major assassination attempt on Hani’s life. He was the right wing’s enemy number one and was generally distrusted by white South Africans. Like so often happens, after his death he was widely recognized as a soldier who had become a man of peace, a man of ... 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 pathologist said he did not bend down - if he had bent down he would still be alive - he was running. And as I walked away two constables, white policemen came to me. They said good afternoon. And I said hello. And then I asked sir, who actually shot my son? They introduced the one as ... ... erected the first hostels for these workers to ensure a continuous, controlled and cheap labour force. Black men could only stay in the so-called white areas as long as they were employed by whites and they would stay without their families. It was an idea that would become intrinsic in the ... ... The statement that gave rise to the complaint was. // ‘The truth as we now know is that this repulsive form of killing was first started by white Rhodesian security forces in the 1970s and then brought to South Africa by the security police.’ // After having studied additional evidence ... ... with black consciousness, black pride; black dignity in South Africa. But the circumstances surrounding his death have always been associated with white police brutality, secrecy and lies. Biko was arrested on the 18th of August 1977 for breaking his banning order. He was held here at the Walmer ... 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. 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 ... ... 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 ... 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 ... ... had to terrorise the majority to accept its subjugation. They had to terrorise not only South African blacks, but they had to terrorise every white who stood up to join the blacks in the democratic struggle and they had to terrorise the whole of Southern ... |
