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people's warExplanation I don’t think anybody here, the general, myself, likes war. I’ve met very few military people who do. War is horrific and is best avoided, but does this mean that when war cannot be avoided that those who are involved are all equally evil or equally guilty? ... on the HRV Committee hearings held in Pietermaritzburg (18 to 21 November) where we hear testimonies from victims of the March 1990 Seven Day War in the greater Edendale Valley, KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, during which nearly 200 people died and 200 000 were left homeless. It also includes ... ... over the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The Boers disagreed. On 11 October 1899 the South African Republic and the Orange Free State were at war with the British Empire. The Boers were devastated, in spite of a legendary and heroic effort. They suffered their greatest losses in British ... ... for the soldiers who fought on both sides of the apartheid struggle. She specifically referred to the soldiers who fought the white government’s war in neigbouring states. Earlier this year we showed you a programme on the scars left on the soldiers who fought in South Africa’s dirty war in ... ... no idea what it’s about. They have no idea what goes through your head. You have to remember that our parents’ generation did not experience a war. Our grandfathers were in the Second World War. Then our parents missed a war and the next generation was again involved in a war and there ... ... no idea what it’s about. They have no idea what goes through your head. You have to remember that our parents’ generation did no experience a war. Our grandfathers were in the Second World War. Then our parents missed a war and the next generation was again involved in a war and there ... took place on Saturday the 15th of February, 1986. After the burial angry youth clashed with heavily armed police. This was the start of the six day war. ... With that sort of background Mdlala and Harrington did not question their biased roles in the seven day war. Mdlala was called to arms on day three when Ashdown and Xaluza were attacked by two impi’s. Mdlala was in the group from Elandskop; IFP InDuna David Ntombela’s stronghold. // It was at ... But it was devastating to the AWB and changed right wing politics very fundamentally. // It’s easy to talk about war and especially for people in the AWB at that time. Every second sentence they said had to do with war and nobody has actually ever seen it. And, when they saw that on television ... There has been this concept rather, that has been created in our people’s mind that the war that we were fighting had rules, the war was pure, and it was a war that was … in the end, there’ll be no loss of life, it would be an easy war. And that concept has destroyed to a large extend the ... A good policeman at the unit was identified by the amount of hours of hard work he had put in, and definitely you had to be anti-ANC in a very strong manner. // We were shown video tapes and we saw people we were being necklaced by tyres and we saw houses were burnt down and people were killed. We ... ... entitled to a straight answer. // What I’m saying mister Chairperson is that Mr. Du Plessis was referring to violence, Dr Treurnicht was talking war. // Oh I see. There’s a difference is there between killing people in war and killing people by assassin. // There is mister Chairman, there ... … go for a gun if the government is ruled by a minority that has allocated itself the right to rule the majority, but I know that war is evil and from time to time we rationalize it, some time we view it as a necessary evil. Some people will call it just war; others will call it holy war. By so ... ... spirits harming the inhabitants of that particular home. That is Intelezi which is visible. But the second Intelezi is the one which is used by all warriors, all regiments; all traditional soldiers when going to war. They will first consult inyanga, or traditional doctor. This traditional doctor ... There’s a difference, is there, between killing people in war and killing people by assassin. // There is Mr. Chairman, there is. // Is that a form of your conservative party logic Mr. Derby-Lewis? // Mr. Chairman, assassination is an act of war, it can occur during a war situation. // Murder is ... When we talk about a just war as we had in South Africa undoubtedly against a corrupt, criminal, racist regime; when we talk about a just war against it and we invoke that we did not give to ourselves the right to terrorise people, we did not give to ourselves the right that the ends don’t ... Have you apologised about wasting a valuable life that might have made a valuable contribution to the people of South Africa? // No, how can I ever apologise for an act of war. War is war. could have made a valuable contribution to the political life of this country or not. // Mister Chairman, no, how can I ever apologise for an act of war? War is war. I haven’t heard the ANC apologizing, the perpetrators of these deeds apologizing for killing people in pubs and blowing them up in ... ... APLA on white civilians. // A new pattern arose in the 1990s where civilians within the white community were attacked. In the nature of guerrilla warfare, which is unlike conventional warfare, detailed plans could not be made from Dar es Salaam. The actual targets were decided by local ... They were legitimate targets of the struggle because they were occupying the very trophy for which war was all about, that is the land. Because when we say ‘we were conquered,’ what we mean is that our land was conquered and the land wasn’t conquered by the ghosts, by the spirits, invisible ... |
