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A-Team (OFS)Explanation We have come to the end of our last programme for 1996. Our first programme for 1997 will be on Sunday 26 January next year and we sincerely hope you will all join us again then. But hopefully the healing process will not take a holiday. If you are interested in the healing of the memories ... ‘Ladies and gentlemen welcome to Port Elizabeth’ // We’ve just touched down here in the Eastern Cape where the Truth Commission held its first Human Rights Violations hearings in April last year. The Special Report team hopes to speak to some of the first victims who told their stories to the ... The one man who seemed prepared to go further than denials was Rubin Marx. Marx is an old style policeman who was also part of the interrogation team. // The deceased Mr Biko did not like being told to get up when Siebert told him he must get up when he speak to me in my office. I thought that I ... If you are considering applying for amnesty we suggest you contact the Truth Commission’s offices in your region at the numbers now on your screen. Please don’t contact the Special Report for this reason. We merely report on the Truth Commission, we have no ties whatsoever with them. The ... This afternoon a special interfaith service was held in Bloemfontein because that is where the Truth Commission will be sitting this coming week. Of course our team will be there but next Sunday we will also show you the very special film a young woman made about her activist father. Don’t miss ... Winnie Mandela, PW Botha, Magnus Malan, Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus. That’s who the Truth Commission had to deal with this past week. In today’s programme we have full reports on the amnesty applications of Chris Hani’s murderers, the testimony by former Defence Minister Magnus Malan ... A bit of good news as we end tonight’s programme; we saw Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Chairperson of the Truth Commission back in action this week after a long absence due to ill health. He addressed a press conference on Friday. We sincerely hope his recovery will be swift and complete. That’s it ... The use of poison and chemicals against political opponents did not originate in South Africa. The Rhodesian police and army used it on a large scale against liberation fighters in Zimbabwe. A favourite method was to soak clothes in toxic organophosphates and distribute it in villages known to be ... I want to request the Truth Commission to investigate the A-Team and try to find out as to in reality who were behind the A-Team, who were sending them to conduct this reign of terror? When I followed De Kock’s case, De Kock did admit that he had something to do with the death of my child and ... Before we go, news about the Truth Commission’s new register of reconciliation. From this coming week members of the public can go to the Truth Commission’s regional offices and sign a register that will be kept for generations to come. According to the Truth Commission the register will give ... ‘Gary Kruser, Former MK Commander, Torture victim.’ // You weren’t arrested by the team in my car. // You personally arrested me, yourself and Piet Goosen. You remember? // It’s difficult to remember sir. // You put me in a kombi yourself, Goosen and Liebenberg and drove me to Culemborg. // ... Well, this is then the end of the road for the Special Report. This is the 87th time I sat here introducing our programme to you. You saw so much of me some people might have thought this was my programme. It wasn’t. The Special Report was a very special team effort of the most hard working and ... The first segment of this episode reports on PW Botha, who appeared before the George Magistrate this week for refusing to appear before the Truth Commission and on his refusal to apologise later at a press conference. The second segment reports on part two of the special hearings on the MUFC held ... Bram Fischer was born in 1908 on a farm near Bloemfontein. He came from a well known legal family. His father, Peter Ulrich Fischer was Judge President of the Free State and his grandfather Abram Fischer had been a Cabinet Minister in the Union of South Africa. Bram went to Grey College and then ... That was our Special Report for this week. Our team is also in Pietermaritzburg for the Human Rights Committee hearings. And we will have two special dispatches from KwaZulu-Natal in next week’s programme. We will also be in East London this coming week where the Amnesty Committee has hearings. ... A man approached us raising 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 ... Appearing before the Truth Commission can sometimes be a dangerous act. It has happened several times that a potential witness refused to testify out of fear for appraisal from those who are going to be implicated. For this reason the Truth Commission has appointed a specialist witness protection ... The police however are actively engaged in restoring order. And there is definitely no reason for any panic. Our team moves to Cape Town for the amnesty hearing of the men who killed seven activists in Gugulethu in 1986 and to East London for the Churches Hearing. Of course you can stay on current affairs television tonight by joining World Watch at 8:30 on SABC 3 and news hour on Thursday at ten. Your ... Meanwhile back at the Town Hall Superintendent Gerrit Fourie and his staff carry out the first security check of the day. // Every morning we had to come in and secure the building and bring in the dog unit and the explosive men, they had to sweep the whole building to ensure that there are no ... |
