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WHITE, KimAge Description 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 ... 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. 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 ... This is how the far whites’ right wing would start its war on South Africa, by cutting off the country’s power supply and plunging it into darkness. For the Boere Weerstands Beweging war was the only way to halt the future it feared: rule by a majority government. In 1993 while political ... ... Namibia. There is no doubt that the death of Anton resulted from a politically motivated assassination. // Lubowski was deeply resented in the white establishment in South Africa and Namibia. Son of an Afrikaner mother of proud Van der Merwe stock, and a German speaking Namibian father, he ... ... Security Council and ‘Operation Marion’ was born. In 1986 200 young Inkatha men were secretly flown from Caprivi where they were trained by white Defence Force instructors. When they came back to KwaZulu-Natal many of them became professional killers; they were responsible for hundreds of ... ... the assassination of five members of the Mozambique resistance movement, then still based in South Africa. They were suspected of killing their white leader Orlando Cristina near Pretoria in April ... Phillip Matela, Thami Hlobo and Jeremiah Moikabi applied for amnesty for the killing of four white motorists who had ventured into Mshenguville township near Odendaalsrus in 1990. The applicants said they killed them because they thought they were IFP supporters and wanted to protect their ... The hearing built up to the moment when the NG Kerk, the former white state church, that once declared apartheid to be based on the Bible, sat down before the Commission. But just before them, came their former black, coloured and Indian daughter churches. It was a white person wearing balaclavas. Round the eyes I could see and the nose was a sharp nose and it wasn’t that of our black people. The conflict of the past is not only about white oppressors. When we talk of reconciliation there are so many shades of the past that now have become levels for reconciliation. What about black informers, black policemen, black councillors, black collaborators? What about the ongoing strife between ... ... Dirk Coetzee, Almond Nofemela and Joe Mamasela. But we start with a special story about forgiveness. The Azanian People’s Army was much feared by white South Africans because of their often ruthless attacks on civilians. For the first time this week the APLA high command formerly accepted ... ... kicked the door, the people who were coming inside. They said they wanted Mavimbela. At the time they were calling Pakamile, Mavimbela. There was a white man who had smeared himself and darkened himself. He was having a rug on his shoulders. I think he was at least embarrassed to shoot my husband ... While operation ‘Great Storm’ was in process on the Free State and Eastern Cape platteland, a white policeman shot and killed a black man arrested for killing an aged couple on a farm outside Kroonstad. The policeman asked for amnesty in Bloemfontein this week because he says he killed in ... ... him on his head and he … and he fell. // At about five o’ clock in the afternoon, towards sunset whilst I was waiting there with my kids,this white lady came together with the doctor who attended to my husband, doctor Benning, who gave me more tablets and after that he said, Mrs. Maseko, ... ... Congress. APLA has been operating for decades, but it really only became well known in 1992 and 1993 when it launched a large number of attacks on white civilian targets, isolated farms in areas bordering Lesotho, the St James Church and Heidelberg tavern in Cape Town and the golf club in King ... ... even at its most powerful, was only a small part of the overall economy. The most powerful businesses and industries continued to be controlled by white English speaking businessmen. In general they denied that apartheid served them or they apartheid and pointed instead at the past Afrikaner ... ... is concerned and double standards or a multiple of standards were applied, depending from which side of the community you came. I mean there was white preferential positions on the one side and prejudices on the other side. And all of those had to be linked into the question of separation; it ... ... changed. I belong to the Methodist Church. I only serve my congregation, Piet serves only his congregation. He has nothing to do with other people. White, Black and Brown … with God there is no difference. // We now have to interact on a different level where we have to read the hearts and the ... ... buses and taxis, the killings at Boipatong, Phola park, the rightwing threat. APLA, the armed wing of the PAC, was carrying out terror attacks on white civilian soft targets. One such an attack was the Highgate massacre in East London which claimed the lives of five people and shattered the ... |