DE WET, Peter

... days and of all the times she’s been in and out of Africa the last four or five years that this happened. And I think, you know, we were totally devastated… // What Linda says is true. If we hadn’t been expecting Amy in a couple of days it might not have been such a shock. // Things that ...

This episode includes reports on the killing of the Gugulethu Seven and the 1985 Pollsmoor march, the focus of HRV hearings held in Cape Town (from 26 to 28 November). The segment includes testimonies from eye witnesses and policemen involved with the Gugulethu incident and historical footage of ...

The episode begins with a background report and interview with former superspy and amnesty applicant, Craig Williamson, who during the 1980s worked for the foreign section of the SAP's security branch, Military Intelligence and finally the State Security Council. The segment includes an interview ...

This episode starts with the Amnesty Committee hearings held in Johannesburg (7 to 11 April) and covers the amnesty applications of two paramilitary right wingers, Leo Froneman and Peter Harmse, for the 1993 Bronkhorstspruit bomb attack and that of Daveyton Youth Congress member, Phineas Ndlovu, ...

At the funeral of Stompie I said that his death was an unspeakable crime and that these past few weeks have probed beneath the surface of South Africa’s shame over these past couple of years. The primary cancer may be and was and will always be the apartheid oppression, but that secondary ...

... morale. And so what I came up with as a young political activist getting involved in the whole exciting area in the late sixties, with the Paris student revolt, with the marches and the demonstrations on Vietnam, all of that kind of student radicalism was the idea of using direct action protest, ...

Peter Hain, labeled ‘public enemy no 1’ by NP, on the state’s dirty tricks abroad (also submitted to the TRC)

Former spy Peter Casselton

Yes he was seen certainly as a peace maker, a reconciler but the other side I’m afraid certainly did not like his position as an activist, so he’d been marked for a long time. And I suppose people monitoring his movements decided that this was an opportunity that they should use. And certainly ...

Witchcraft is a particularly serious problem in the Northern Province. The widow and son of northern Transvaal UDF leader Peter Nchabeleng testified about his death in police detention in 1986. But Peter Nchabeleng was far more than just a political leader in Sekhukhuneland land. He was also an ...

This week, for the first time ever in the life of the Truth Commission a policeman voluntarily took the stand to give supporting evidence. Capt Peter John Clayton had been on duty the night Adri Faas was shot. He told the Truth Commission what had happened that evening. // I cannot remember ...

... but their pledged their support for the Truth and Reconciliation process. // We unabashedly support the process which we recognize to be unprecedented in contemporary human history. // The Biehl’s who say they are committed to continuing Amy’s work for women’s rights in South Africa ...

Steve Biko’s comrade in the Black Consciousness Movement, Peter Jones, recalled the serenity of his friend and denied that Biko would have started a fight. // If I should describe Steve Biko in a word I would describe him as calm, as mature and as a leader, an outstanding visionary who always ...

‘In fact matters didn’t end there. In fact, Hain and other anti-apartheid activists triggered off a worldwide vendetta against South African sportsmen’ // Well the sports boycott and my identification with organising it hit them so hard that some response was perhaps inevitable and so I got a ...

Pretoria school boy in the 1960s. Radical socialist branded South Africa’s public enemy number one in the 1970s. Now, in the 1990s, waiting in the wings to lead the British. Peter Hain is a member of parliament and a shadow minister for the labour party in Britain. When the labour party takes ...

Many former policemen were involved in violations of human rights during the apartheid years. Only a few can tell the broader story of what happened and why. Foremost amongst these is Craig Williamson. Tonight we bring you a background report and an interview with the once famous superspy. We have ...

At that stage the National Party had decided to give over the country to the ANC/SACP alliance. Mister De Klerk at that stage also mentioned that all religions would become equal. And that was something that was totally against the BWB and against my own objectives; because we believe that there is ...

After tests showing brain injury the doctors authorised the patient’s return to the police cells. On the 11th of September the patient collapsed. The doctor accepted police refusal to transfer to hospital and agreed to mister Biko’s transfer 750 miles to Pretoria at the back of a Land Rover on ...

... near her home in Manguzi. We didn’t know what had happened to Claire and for two weeks we had no information, we had no knowledge, we had no idea what had happened to her. // We searched in various places in Manguzi, in Empangeni, and the area in between. // And then on the 24th of November ...

‘Peter Jacobs, Former MK Cadre, Torture victim.’ // If I said to Mr. Jacobs I put the electrodes in his nose, I may be wrong; if I said I attached it to his genitals, I may be wrong; if I had put a probe into his rectum, I may be wrong. That is way the specific methods I could have used any of ...