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Mr Tim Ledgerwood, a former conscript 34 Mr Ledgerwood had a privileged upbringing in a white, English-speaking, middle class and deeply religious home. He said that: The society that I grew up in asked no questions about military duty (this was in 1980). You went to school, you registered when ...

hearing, were talked through in the play. In this way, it was hoped that some of the reservations would be overcome. The radio play was broadcast in English, Xhosa and Afrikaans. 30 The Commission’s narrow mandate was disappointing to some, especially in the rural areas, where many people had ...

... Committee indicates that Hashe, Galela and Godolozi went to the the Ben Schoeman airport in Port Elizabeth after receiving a telephone call from an English-speaking Security Branch member, posing as a British Embassy official. Security Branch members, with the help of Vlakplaas askaris, abducted ...

... amounted to pre-publication censorship of information on state-inspired and state-sanctioned violations. 113 The management of the mainstream English language media often adopted a policy of appeasement towards the state, ensuring that a large measure of self-censorship occurred. Failure ...

the north-east, the Xhosa, who lived mainly in the cities, and the Tswana. Of the white population, the great majority were Afrikaans-speaking, with English-speakers tending to concentrate in the cities and industrial centres. 7 From the time of the Boers’ arrival with the Great Trek, ...

... on racial lines, have for various reasons failed to unite – often because of residual or overt forms of racism. Most churches, the dominant English-speaking churches among them, practised ecclesial apartheid by appointing ministers to congregations based on race and the payment of unequal ...

... We call for a just peace in our land. 23 Dr Nathan described the ECC as a broad, dynamic and creative coalition. We had within our ranks English and Afrikaans-speaking people; we had school pupils, university students and parents. Some of us regarded ourselves as liberals; others as ...