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HUMAN, HSAge Description ‘Ladies and gentlemen welcome to Port Elizabeth’ // We’ve just touched down here in the Eastern Cape where the Truth Commission held its first Human Rights Violations hearings in April last year. The Special Report team hopes to speak to some of the first victims who told their stories to the ... ... for talking to me and congratulations for making this transition. You know I have the impression that the transition to democracy happens in every human heart. It’s not something which happens in the whole country, if everybody doesn’t do it. And this I think is a very encouraging sign to ... ... there were bullet holes in the walls. The bathroom floor was covered in blood, as were the hallway and kitchen. In the kitchen there was blood and human tissue because Jacqui was shot in the chest. South African newspapers reported that the Lesotho Liberation Army was responsible. But it later ... ... to apply for amnesty. The letter was 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 ... But there was another evil in our past, human rights violations inside the ANC’s detention camps in Angola. We’ll take a good look at that too tonight. Let’s first go inside the cells of death. ... process will be dominated by amnesty hearings starting in late January. Slowly a picture is forming of how the amnesty committee thinks and which human rights violations they consider to be pardonable and which ones not. Let’s take a look at some of the most recent judgements handed down by ... ... a bomb at the early learning centre at Athlone in Cape Town. No documentation or evidence could be obtained linking the CCB to the murder of human rights activist, Doctor David ... ... we’d like to support any form of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee because till today inside the prison walls there are gross violations of human rights taking place. I can just think about doctors covering up certain things, there’s fraud in death certificates, those are things we know ... the Truth Commission be able to cope with what will be demanding of it in ’97? // We are supposed to give as complete a picture as possible of the human rights violations and I think we’ll be able to do that. But it seems to me we are going to be snowed under, we are being already, in the ... ... de Kock and he is not at all what we thought he would be like. We also introduce you to a woman who explains what solitary confinement does to the human mind and we tell you more about the poisoning of activists by the police and their army in the late 1980s. And at the end of tonight’s report ... ... He survived Bantu education, student politics during the seventies and eighties as well as torture. This week he told his story to the TRC’s Human Rights Violations Committee, but he’d like to see the Truth Commission do more than simply record the experiences of black ... ... Tshikalanga and Almond Nofemela will start retelling their stories in Durban this coming week when their applications for amnesty are heard. The Human Rights Violations Committee will hear evidence in Empangeni from Monday. Please tune into SABC 3 on Tuesday evening at 9:30 when I share a ... ... a vicious attack on the house of Victor Ntuli at KwaMakhutha near Amanzimtoti. Wednesday saw the unusual situation where the Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee focused on the attack on the same day as the Magnus Malan trial in connection with the same matter resumed in the ... ... then, forgotten now: Laaitie comrades of the Cape Flats, Report by Gail Reagon.’ // In Cape Town last week young adults gathered to speak about human rights violations against them as teenagers. Three were partially blinded, victims of random police shootings. This story is about the ones who ... Brian Ngqulunga was a frail, pathetic looking person, human being. He took him, he beat him up and when Brian lost consciousness he picked him up, he threw him up in the sky and when Brian landed with this certain thud, he jumped. You know, if you know De Kock, he’s a big guy with a big torso. He ... Robben Island was a place where apartheid like in all prisons was carried out. Before we talk about the day to day human rights violations of individual prison warders the mere fact that you were black, your clothing was different as if the weather treated you differently. Your food was different, ... Gen van der Merwe challenged former State President FW de Klerk’s claim that the National Party government had never authorized human rights crimes. // If that is denied that the previous government in this case, specifically the State Security Council, did not have knowledge of certain unlawful ... You know, we were soldiers at that time and … no, I honestly don’t think I’m evil. Every human being got a skeleton in the cupboard. No, I don’t think I’m evil. ... squabble is the looming elections for a new deputy president for the ANC, but tomorrow’s hearings are only about finding out the truth about past human rights ... What we were involved in was as I say ‘active sabotage,’ protest sabotage, specifically not to affect people, not to affect human beings, but at the same time to show that there was opposition, that there were people who were opposing. |
