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WHITE, KimAge Description ... 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 ... the only people cynical about the Truth Commission process. From conversations, radio talk shows and letters to newspapers, it appears that ordinary white South Africans do not associate with the Commission. In two months of hearings very few white faces could be seen in the public gallery. ... ... 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 ... Let’s turn our attention now to another memory of our past that should not be lost. In the late 1700s the white settlers in South Africa forced slaves to carry identity books so that they could control their movements. In some way or another pass books had existed since then. But when the ... ... with us in the house. Zenzile was not there. So, they got in there, there were some two or three other black security policemen with them, and some white security policeman. The only one I can remember now is Gideon Niewoudt. Niewoudt had a packet of cigarettes in his shirt, in his pocket in ... ... the residents against any threats. You were there to protect, not to attack, not to kill. // It was necessary because at that time we regarded the white people as our enemies. // Do you remember the evidence that was led at the trial? // Yes, I do remember. // A red bakkie cut off the white ... It doesn’t matter if its black or white when one walks into the gallows room it’s absolutely professional. You don’t think about white or black. One could say that it was holy, you respected that place. // Warrant Officer Johan Steynberg escorted condemned prisoners to their death for over ... 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. If you want to know whether white judges who went onto the bench had, across the spectrum, a range of views which white people in South Africa entertained I wouldn’t have thought it was necessary to ask me that question. The answer is rather too self evident. ... young South African, fanatically into sport: rugby, soccer, cricket, motor racing the lot. And I knew how vital sport was to the maintenance of the white South African psyche and mystique and morale. And so what I came up with as a young political activist getting involved in the whole exciting ... I don’t know where he emanated from. It was a black man. He was being called by the white man. He lifted his hands up in the air and they took a gun from his waist. They snapped the gun out of his waist. Immediately after that a white man from NY1 just above the restaurants called out saying ... ... 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 ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... fired three shots at me. As he pointed the gun at me I saw his hand. They were all wearing balaclavas, so I saw his hand and it was definitely a white man or white person. When this car had sped past me, I then ran back home with the intention of telling my parents that some thieves had just ... ... his arms and he was talking in Xhosa saying that he’ll take us to where the rest of the group is. One sergeant from the riot unit, he was a white sergeant, said I should shoot this man. And before I shot this man, as he was raising his arms I saw his firearm, and therefore we disarmed ... 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 ... ... 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 ... The 1953 Bantu Education Act, separated schools and curricula for white and black, inferior education for black communities. It began with the National Party’s rise to power and the policies this man, Dr Hendrik F Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid. He was determined to deny black people, ... 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 ... |
