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HUMAN, HSAge Description ... in the end when the report came out the report stated, this woman’s husband has disappeared on this date and he has been found to be a victim of human rights violations. But she already knew that. She got no further truth from that case. She already knew exactly what the commission wrote, ... ... backbone of the National Party their confession before the people of Paarl and Stellenbosch was a meaningful milestone in the Commission’s human rights violations ... Attacking soft targets or civilians was never ANC policy. Mbeki said the death of civilians could not be seen as a gross human rights violation if they died in the crossfire of a just war. Innocent victims of the massacre, like Mrs Francis Joli, and Lindiswa Ngwenya told the Human Rights Violations Committee how they were mistreated after they had been caught in the crossfire. // I heard gunshots and I fell down, due to the gunshots. I don’t know who did this. I tried to ask for ... Midnight last night was the deadline for amnesty applications. Perpetrators of gross human rights violations who did not submit their applications by last night will now be liable for civil prosecution and civil claims. By last night more than 7000 amnesty applications had been received. Amongst ... There have been many women before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Till now they have been in the background speaking mainly about human rights violations against loved ones. This week, a special session in Cape Town was dedicated to hearing the stories of women who have been directly ... During the 13 months of human rights violations hearings of the Truth Commission a large number of women gave testimony. Most of them came as the wives or mothers of victims, but it has become clear that women suffered in a different way. While torture and abuse happened to most political ... the brutal terror waged by right wing thugs in the Western Transvaal of the late eighties and early nineties. We start with the Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations hearings in Klerksdorp. Many black mothers and widows told the Truth Commission that they would only be able to make peace ... A large part of the Truth Commission’s activities revolve around human rights abuses by the policemen and soldiers of the former government. But there’s another chapter of brutality, one that has not been closed properly, the bloody conflict between supporters of the ANC and the IFP. That is ... This is how we build a new culture of respect for human rights and dignity, to expose the evils of the past so that we are vigilant to never allow it again. We don’t seem to be doing all that well on this score. One of Chief Seremane’s torturers is today a senior manager in the National ... People who must have an opportunity to register their regret at not preventing human rights violations and also to give them an opportunity to register their commitment to reconciliation. ... We did not oppose this. We said yes we all want to know the truth. Yes, we differ in the method how we establish the truth. And we felt that if a human being, a person like the clergy people, could be the people that would probably engineer or facilitate this; the very clergy people were the ... ... // When people look at the work of the Commission they should remember that within a two year period we’ve changed the discourse forever about human rights violations and nobody will deny that they took place. Initially when victims told their stories people were disbelieving. Now that we ... I personally can perceive no definition of direct human rights violations which could possibly be attributed to business generally during that period. My view is that business could certainly have been seen to be doing more, but whether that would have had any affect on a government determined to ... of the former government were attacked and killed. Indeed the image of scientists experimenting in their Pretoria laboratories with poison meant for human beings bring memories of doctors like the evil Dr Mengele and yet, nobody has been prosecuted for ... 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 spend most of Friday with ... questions put to them by the Commission earlier and to expand on their earlier submissions. There will also be an amnesty hearing in Bloemfontein, a human rights violations hearing in King Williamstown and a special hearing on the children of war in KwaZulu-Natal. That’s what you can look ... the Truth Commission. Instead of explaining their role in the past the generals beat the ‘rooi gevaar’ drum, accused the liberation movements of human rights violations and on top of it demand an apology from the Truth Commission. We asked the Deputy Chairperson of the Truth Commission, Dr ... ... races and enforce white rule. The dompas was born. It ruled the lives of millions of black adults until 1986. It was probably the greatest single human rights violation of our ... ... I go home, the normality of a family life, the fact that I still have to be a mother, a wife, helps me to deal with the fact that I am not a super human being, I’m an ordinary person. But I don’t sleep very well, so I’ll read till the early hours of the morning and I accept that that’s ... |
