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End Conscription Campaign (ECC)Explanation ... Institute, although I am not a Christian, I worked in the Sprokas(?) Programme. I joined the Conscientious Objectors Support Group. I joined the End Conscription Campaign. I was on trial with Beyers Naude and others for refusing to answer the questions of the Shlebusch Commission. I wrote ... MR KAHANOVITZ: You see, you do recall though at the time the End Conscription Campaign was a very vocal and public organisation? ... unit would have ordered say the plastic backing or whatever without saying we want to now print a specific sticker as a campaign against the End Conscription Campaign. Sometimes these type of claims would also be falsified. The real truth wouldn't be set out in the actual ... MR BASSON: Yes. Yes, he told me that in terms of his activities at the End Conscription Campaign, there's this Mr Evans. Yes, it was conveyed to me. CHAIRPERSON: Just for record purposes, is that the End Conscription Campaign? ... for refusal because, Mr Chairperson, this was first of all they didn't know which Evans, there were two brothers. The one more prominent in the End Conscription Campaign and the other, they were going to kill the wrong one and for the motivation, the rather bizarre answers given by Maree in ... ... for refusal because, Mr Chairperson, this was first of all they didn't know which Evans, there were two brothers. The one more prominent in the End Conscription Campaign and the other, they were going to kill the wrong one and for the motivation, the rather bizarre answers given by Maree in ... MR BIZOS: In the information that you were given, was there anything about the involvement of an Evans in the end conscription campaign? ... I would have thought that as a General in the Army, he would have been high up on your list of would-be acquaintances. He was the top man in the End Conscription Campaign - he was high up I'm told - I'm sorry, I correct it, high up on the End Conscription Campaign, the person who was really ... MR VAN ZYL: My knowledge regarding Gavin Evans at that stage was somewhat limited, I did know that he was a reasonably prominent figure within the End Conscription Campaign. We also had a little bit of information, let me put it in the following way, I also gathered some information in the ... ... the PCSA has remained a church in which there is a great deal of discrimination in the payment of its ministers. The Assembly sets minimum stipends, but unlike the Anglican church for instance, each congregation pays its own ministers, except that those ministers whose stipends fall ... "We should seek ways of intensifying church involvement in the End Conscription Campaign" here today, who opposed the system and the war, were locked up in prison and verbally and physically abused. Women active in the Black Sash and the End Conscription Campaign and in the students' movement were targeted and harassed. They were thrown into police vans, detained and burnt. This ... ... Young Christian Students, Young Christian Workers and so on and so forth as well as others such as the South African Council for higher education, End Conscription Campaign, Conscientious Objectors Support Group, Detainees Parents Support Committee, etc as well as the media such as New Nation, ... MR GOOSEN: Youth organisations, the End Conscription Campaign, Nusas at that stage, those sorts of structures. ... at the point where I would like to refer to the documents. Before I refer to the documents, you were for a number of years an active member of the End Conscription Campaign in Natal. Is that correct? --- I was, but I think you need to say what the relevance of such a line of questioning is ... If the end conscription campaign existed to-day I would proposethat we issue stickers for distribution in the White communitywhich said stop complaining, start building and I would suggestthe RDP office that they put out stickers for distribution inthe White community that say, get with the ... ... organisations, civics,. students groups, women's organisations, even religious officials and groups (such as the SACC), organisations such as the End Conscription Campaign and the Black Sash - all who did not support apartheid, whether civilian or not, were defined as the enemy. ... ... Special Report has always been 80% female. I want to talk today about the experiences of Vrye Weekblad. It was founded in November 1988 as an independent Afrikaans language weekly. I was nominally the owner of it, because nobody else wanted to put their names on that, in case of court cases, ... ... and as well as out in the field. We set about gathering statements. We also had good contacts with people who were working in the UDF, the End Conscription Campaign, the Black Sash, etcetera. We, over a period of three days, have gathered 20 statement from these sorts of people from all ... |