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WHITE, KimAge Description ... 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 ... ... 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 ... Matthew Goniwe was going to be transferred back to Graaf-Reinett. He was from Graaf-Reinett, but he was staying here. And now we are going to have a white principal, Mr. Visagie in the high school. That’s when things go upside down, because we didn’t want him to leave. We didn’t want the ... ... iron pipe I noticed that blood was oozing from the old man’s nostrils and ears as well as the mouth. And I saw the old man’s eyes turning into white pupils, they were turning. It was as if he was fainting or just about to die. The beatings went on and on until I saw the old man lying ... White people were the privileged ones in the old South Africa, but there was one way in which the repressive apartheid government touched their lives: young white men were forced to join the army to fight fellow citizens and freedom fighters in neighbouring states. Wallace McGregor was one of many ... ... by the divisions in their part of the world. Patrick Morake and a friend were driving to Bloemfontein when his car was attacked near Brandfort by white Afrikaans speaking men wearing khaki clothes. He is convinced that the men who shot at him and his friend were ‘wit wolwe.’ ... ... on farms and in small towns some were preparing for a different future. The Boere Weerstands Beweging (BWB), a paramilitary offshoot of the white right wing was planning war. While most were anticipating a majority government, the BWB was stockpiling food and arms for battle against the ... The South African Defence Force was never involved in Zimbabwe after its independence in 1980. That is the official version, yet in 1982 three white South African soldiers died on Zimbabwean soil. The SADF had a quick explanation, but could it have been a smoke screen for South African involvement ... A clear example of the one man’s hero being the other man’s villain. Peter Hain is also such a man. Resented deeply by most white South Africans because he almost single handily launched the sports boycott against apartheid South Africa. Respected by most black South Africans because of his ... ... who worked as a researcher at the University of the Western Cape is driving through Gugulethu giving three black colleagues a lift home. Then the white woman is spotted by the enflamed group and two worlds collide. At the end of sustained stoning and stabbing, Amy Biehl is ... In September 1990 four white motorists drove into Kutloanong township near Odendaalsrus. Hours later Anthony Casey, Johannes van Niekerk, Michael Belelie and Shelly Basson were dead, attacked by residents who assumed they were Inkatha supporters. Shelly Basson’s genitals were mutilated and her ... ... sir,’ ‘môre baas.’ Briefly, for he didn’t have a good relationship with the Africans, because he had a big role in the oppression of the white people. I personally know this, I saw this myself, because most Africans were complaining about Fourie’s handling. Even my own father stayed ... should go and fetch a seat for Mami. So then Morgan went to fetch a seat. Then Winnie came in and she started asking us, why are you sleeping with a white reverend? And why is Stompie an informer. Then that’s when she starting beating us and told us that we are not fit to be alive. Firstly it ... ... that the crowd of people who were shot at were armed with sticks, stones, petrol bombs, and bricks with which they had intended to attack the white inhabitants of Uitenhage. Minister of Law and Order, Louis Le Grange immediately appointed judge Kannemeyer to head up a commission of inquiry ... Church street, Pretoria 1983. Amanzimtoti, 1985. ANC bombs remind ordinary white South Africans there is war. // The bomb that caused the biggest emotional outcry exploded in Church Street, Pretoria, in the late afternoon of May 20. 1983. 19 People were killed and 219 injured. The ANC claimed ... White South Africa went into deep shock when apartheid’s greatest philosopher Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed to death in Parliament in 1966. // His successor, John Vorster successfully kept the lid on resistance with bannings, detentions, and imprisonment. // ‘As far as the government of South ... Most white South Africans were very proud of these actions of the Defence Force. But for Hilda Phahle it was her worst nightmare come true. Her son George lived in Gaborone. George’s brother Levi watched his family being killed by SADF special forces commandoes. // Levi watched from under the bed ... ... // We will deal with this problem on our programme tonight and tell the story of Stanza Bopape. But perpetrators of human rights were not always white and not always on the sides of the apartheid governments. We also visit the Amnesty hearings in East London where the ANC Youth League ... The streets of white residents would be patrolled from 9 pm in the evening and that all blacks would be removed from the town, if not willingly, forcefully. 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 ... |
