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WHITE, KimAge Description ... 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 ... ... neighbour, witnessed from a window how Sunnyboy and his friend came running to hide in a backyard and his subsequent killing by police. // We saw a white man; he stood next to the bathroom, the bathroom of no 47. I stay at no 48. This white man shot with something. We saw him dragging two of the ... ... 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 ... ... 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 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 ... ... and resisted until they won it. They were very fierce guys. When they go and attack they used to have a kind of a paint. They painted themselves white, whether they make a cross because you couldn’t go closer to them. I was very scared of ... 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 ... 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. The Commission has documented volumes on the activities of white policemen who were hated and feared in the townships, but this week in Grahamstown it was the actions of the black municipal policemen known as kitskonstabels that came under the spotlight. // These municipal police, we know who they ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... massacre a middle aged Cape Town gardener with a standard two education, Bennet Sibaya, claimed he had seen young black men loading weapons into a white Audi in Gugulethu, an hour or so after the massacre. The type of car and registration number correspond with that of the Truth Commission’s ... ... the state then was that this was an example of African brutality. The truth we know now 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. Policemen burnt Siphiwo Mtimkulu, and Topsy ... ... and executed their first and last operation at Wesselsdal farm. // When we arrived there I knocked at the door together with my comrades and a white lady came, that is the wife of Mr. Smith. We asked her where was her husband. We are there to request petrol. We didn’t wait for a long time, ... ... 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, ... 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 ... 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 ... in Pietermaritzburg this week the mother of the victim heard how the perpetrators carefully planned and then carried out their order to kill as many white people as they could. They only managed to kill one, her ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... |
