Peacemakers

Explanation
In 1980, some parents opposed to the school boycotts in Grahamstown formed a vigilante group called the 'Peacemakers', charged with the task of persuading children to go back to school. The Peacemakers did not succeed in ending the boycott. Instead, there was a violent clash involving students, Peacemakers and police at Andrew Moyake School in Joza, Grahamstown. Another vigilante group known as the 'Peacemakers' emerged in KwaNobuhle, Uitenhage, Cape, in 1984 to help the KwaNobuhle Town Council counter popular opposition to its decision to raise rents and service charges. Violence between UDF supporters, the police and the vigilantes escalated between September 1984 and March 1985. The police regarded the Peacemakers as helpful in maintaining law and order and admitted that members of the Peacemakers were acting as informers for the Security Police.

TV Series Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC Victims

Submission

... and forced to lie in a coffin all night by this gang of thugs. Counsel for defence in one public violence trial stated that it was well-known the "Peacemakers" were in the pay of the SAP. On Sharpeville Day, March 21st 1985, the Uitenhage massacre took place when police shot dead seventeen ...

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Special Hearing, East London, Day 1 (17 November 1997)

Church leaders - especially those who still have predominantly White congregations, are going to have to challenge their people to be peacemakers, to stretch out their hand of fellowship. The church has so much to offer South Africa and it must not fail in it's God-given opportunity to share ...

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Special Hearing, East London, Day 1 (17 November 1997)

... of a peace church had been rejected by its synod, it confessed that we had failed as a church to give sufficient attention to God's call to be peacemakers and thus to provide an alternative to violent action to change. That we failed to provide sufficient opportunity for consultation and ...

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Special Hearing, Pietersburg, Day 3 (18 June 1997)

In conclusion I want to say again that we are more than just religious, we are a peace loving people and if the Bible says blessed are the peacemakers, we might have had so many blessings if and only if these people will come forward. The people we want to make peace with are not coming to tell ...

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Grahamstown, Day 2 (08 April 1997)

REV XUNDU: This created a conflict because the children saw the peacemakers as collaborating with the police?

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Durban (25 October 1996)

... violence. The levels of conflict have meant that women have had to face the might of the police and the army and also try and act as mediators and peacemakers while protecting their children and their communities from a war they had not started. The night vigils of the women of Chesterville are ...

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Bisho, Day 3 (11 September 1996)

... society at the time of these events, that no one was capable of preventing the tragedy from occurring. The negotiators, the intermediaries, the peacemakers, the political leaders, the clergy, the lawyers, the courts, the diplomats, the international observers, the media, all failed miserably ...

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