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BOTHA, JHAge Description In 1985 the then State President PW Botha declared the state of emergency in response to the growing internal unrest inside the country. In 1986 the second State of Emergency followed. For the first time in its history the South African Defence Force was deployed on a massive scale inside the ... The oppressed in the scheme of reconciliation must not bear the burden of such horror, I would say, as the nine days that Mrs. Mandela went through and Mr. Botha can thumb his nose at such Truth and Reconciliation. ... who became an MK in Durban while he studied for his medical degree at the University of Natal. General JA Steyn, Lt-Col Vorster and Col Hentie Botha are implicated in the disappearances of both Phila Ndwendwe and Phumezo Nxiweni. But many of the ten murder sites pointed out this week ... Magnus Malan, who at first appeared reluctant to respond to questions about cross border raids later conceded that the main 1986 raid into Lesotho, Botswana and Zimbabwe were approved by PW Botha. Badenhorst said Webster’s killing came up again, often. // I began to take it seriously when he told me in about 1995 that Calla Botha was the driver of the car. He said Calla was so shocked that he had to threaten him with a gun to get him to drive away. He told me Webster was an ANC activist ... ... Security Council, the most powerful decision making body dealing with security matters in the country during the 1980s was the brainchild of PW Botha. At the heart of the TRC’s investigation into the State Security Council is who in the chain of command knew what? This week, both former ... disintegrated, but both his legs remained. One was 64 meters away from the explosion. Again, no head was found. Specialist pathologist professor Jan Botha said in his post-mortem reports that ‘the fact that the legs of the deceased were relatively spared suggests that they were standing at the ... my mother that I would give her beautiful things. I would work for my mother. Now I did not get that chance to work for my mother. The government of Botha made me like this, like you see me ... ... anger continues to grow in the wake of the commando raid on alleged ANC bases in the Botswana capital of Gaborone. Foreign minister, Minister Pik Botha said in September last year that the Botswana government had not been able to reach acceptable understanding with the South African government ... Certainly the questions uppermost in the minds of Archbishop Tutu and his team this week. They”d gathered former State Security Council members Pik Botha, Adriaan Vlok, Roelf Meyer and Leon Wessels to get straight answers. Was the State Security Council a shadow cabinet? What were its precise ... ... of the past’ which is also often avoided or denied but which ‘has to be faced squarely.’ The Committee however refused amnesty to David Botha, the leader of the cell who ordered the bus attack saying that there was ‘no evidence that he had received instructions to carry it ... Our subpoena to Mr. PW Botha is in fact defective in that, although we have the date and place, we omitted to state the time and for lawyers that is not just a minor technicality. ... appear before the Truth Commission, calling it ‘a circus.’ The Commission had no choice to refer the matter to the Attorney-General who charged Botha with contravening the Truth and Reconciliation Act. Botha’s first court appearance turned out to be a ... another ally, Malawi’s Hastings Banda, who was supporting RENAMO. In fact, documents to this effect were according to then Foreign Affairs Mr. Pik Botha found in the Machel ... ... security climate in which negotiations could take place. The members of the previous governments, with a few exceptions, such as mister PW Botha avoid taking a clear comprehensive, collective, political and moral responsibility for the actions of the South African Defence Force and its ... ... without trial, torture and death. A searing collective hurt in Cape Town to this day remains the death of District Six. On 11 February 1966 P W Botha declared it a white area and its tight knit community was scattered to the wastelands of the Cape ... Mister Botha put it as follows. ‘There is an attempt under Marxist leadership to bring about the revolution in southern Africa, more specifically in the Republic of South Africa. This can no longer be denied. The revolutionary elements are there and nothing can satisfy the hunger of those powers. ... other large external operation, was sanctioned personally by the Prime Minister, PJ Vorster, under the advice of the Minister of Defence, who was PW Botha and of course advised by the chief of the National Defence Force, General Malan, and the chief of the army, General Constant Viljoen. But ... ... that South Africa might want to have a black President. Now you know I was right, I know I was right, everyone knows I was right. President Botha thought I was left. And so I was forced to say sorry in order to keep my job in the cabinet so I could fight apartheid from within ‘en nee ... other large external operation, was sanctioned personally by the Prime Minister, PJ Vorster, under the advice of the Minister of Defence, who was PW Botha and of course advice by the chief of the National Defence Force, General Malan, and the chief of the army, General Constant Viljoen. But ... |
