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DU TOIT, EAge Description In the first segment of this episode theologians Beyers Naude and Sach Mokgoeba, Anglican priest Michael Lapsley, Deputy Minister of Education Fr. Smangaliso Mkatshwa, political philosopher Andre du Toit, as well as security police amnesty applicants Paul van Vuuren and Wouter Mentz respond to the ... ... was then commander at Vlakplaas and the Security Branch’s Mr. Fix It. He is now serving life plus 212 years in Pretoria Central C Max. Major Vaal du Toit is the man who built the bomb, he was technical unit commander at Vlakplaas. Jacobus Kok helped Du Toit build the explosive device. Snor ... The Afrikaners and whites in South Africa has all along been a minority, so the social and the power relations are fundamentally different. That makes at one level the crime of apartheid of white minority rule more extreme. One needn’t even be a Calvinist, if you live in a country like South Africa there is no way in which you cannot be cognizant of the frailty and the evil of people all around you and how you become part of that. Even if both sides participate in the same war, even if both sides commit similar acts of shooting, bombing and killing; morally speaking they cannot be equated. It’s a question of a just war as against an unjust war. The Nazis in Germany represented the majority and when they acted against the Jews then they acted against a small minority. The moral paradox of war is that in war soldiers may kill; soldiers may kill enemy soldiers, they may intentionally, deliberately kill in combat enemy soldiers without that being murder. Combatants may legitimately kill other combatants, but the fundamental principle of justice in war is the ... There is no privileged position of innocence. I mean, in an apartheid South Africa no one could be innocent. The evil that people may not have known about is the actual killings and torture, the criminal operations; I mean, I think anybody who’s lived through South Africa in that time must have had some word or rumour of that but you could probably, genuinely have lived through the period and not been ... But there’s no way in which you could have lived through the last 40 years of apartheid and not know of the pass laws and not know of forced removals and not know of race classification and not know of group areas and also not know of what that did to communities and to individuals’ lives. We now know that the escape story was a lie. Five security policemen have applied for amnesty for killing Bopape during interrogation; two others for disposing of his body; and three generals for covering up the death. // ‘Murder: Lt Col Adriaan Peter van Niekerk, Const Hendrik Albertus Mostert, ... ... never followed up. Many of the men were Vlakplaas members and several have already been linked to gross human rights violations like Brigadier WAL du Toit, and Major Marthinus Ras, and former Vlakplaas top man, Jack Cronje. The letter stated that the men were supported by former commissioners ... ... first time, Adriaan Vlok and the top commander of the police force admitted our men may have murdered, killed, tortured and bombed in the line of duty. // This highly confidential letter was delivered to the Truth Commission this week. // 22 former and serving policemen want to ask amnesty for ... ... were issued enemy uniforms, rifles, ammunition, weapon gear and transport. We were to tie yellow scarves on our shoulders to go enemy or not. Major Du Toit was operation commanding officer and Captain Ben Venter field commanding officer over Operation Modular. Infiltration, deep into enemy ... this, the dog unit, the service officer – I phoned him myself and told him what happened, because he didn’t know what happened – and later Gen du Toit turned up … and right there and then the security branch officer of Vereeniging was also unaware of this fake escape. He put together ... |
