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HUMAN, HSAge Description ... that this week’s health hearing was just a small step in a long process of healing, which should be followed up by the medical profession and human rights organisations. // If we achieve anything through this process I do hope that we insure that human beings are never again treated like ... ... involvement of Mrs. Mandela and members of the football club. These have been in statements made by victims who have come forward to complain about human rights violations. Mrs. Mandela herself at all times while she was subpoenaed called for a public inquiry and the Commission was quite pleased ... ... at the end. Occasionally a stiff whiskey at the end of the day helps as well. So there’s a variety of ways, but …Some of the great themes of human existence are caught up in the life and work of the Commission and it’s something that has been with me since I was a young person trying to ... If prisoners kill each other, stab each other, they’re always on my neck. They’re always fighting and saying we don’t respect the human rights of prisoners. And when we start to restrain and start to develop prisoners so they should stop aggressive behaviour then we don’t respect the human ... Let’s turn to something completely different now. The amnesty process is about perpetrators of human rights violations. The other side of the truth and reconciliation process is about their victims. How do we compensate them for their hurts and losses? On a practical level we should look at ... ... on high profile cases like you are doing with the police? // Yes, I must correct the view that we have not been doing any investigations of those human rights violations cases that have been brought to our attention relevant to ANC people. There have been ongoing investigations. In fact, as you ... ... and Rehabilitation Committee says the state has a moral obligation to compensate each and every South African who qualifies as a victim of a gross human rights violation. While human rights violations and amnesty hearings dominated the headlines in the past year and a half the Reparation and ... ... did not speak out enough against racist attitudes amongst our church members; did not speak out enough against impairment of people’s true, human dignity. During the Soweto riots of 1976 and in line countrywide unrest that followed, vague resolutions were passed concerning the state of ... ... down on paper, on record, on tape as factual evidence. When in fact it is not factual evidence as such. It is one person’s side of the story. And human people can err, and human people are not all very honest. And I will be … I don’t think I’m wrong if I say, all the stories that are told ... ... because in Bonteheuwel there was there was a house and a road, there was one little shop, miles you had to walk to the shop. And, for me the human factor of this thing was very important and that is why even in my work I like working with the human … I can relate to that because I do ... Evil is the power to subvert everything which is good and moral in the life of a human being. It is a force inside the human being which brings you to do what normally you would not wish to do. Most of the evidence brought to the Truth Commission in the last 11 months concerned human rights violations in the 1980s. But resistance to white minority rule started many decades ago and we as South Africans should remember the early struggles of our people. That is what the Truth Commission’s ... The Amnesty Committee and the Human Rights Violations Committee will sit in Cape Town this coming week and there will be human rights violations hearings in Piet Retief, Ermelo and Standerton. We’re also preparing a documentary on child victims of our bitter conflict. So until next Sunday, good ... Before the break we saw what those who violated human rights stand to gain from the Truth Commission process. But certainly those who survived these violations and the families of those who did not are more important. The new democratic government, actually we as a nation, has a moral ... ... you know how it feels? Can you imagine how it feels to bury the brain tissue of your own son of eight years old? Can you imagine what it does to a human being? How does one become human again after such an experience? Three days after the explosion my wife died. Jaco did not get better. He died ... There are two human rights violations that I have chosen to focus on. There could be many more, but I have decided to focus on those two only. The first is being accused for Khotso house, the explosion there and the second is the torture that my son and I endured in 1990. Mister Adriaan Vlok had ... ... like the one last week. We mostly hear the voices of perpetrators now. But it is important not to forget the first crucial part of the process: the Human Rights Violations hearings, the voices of the victims of the past. This is a ... In the Truth Commission process there are victims and there are perpetrators of human right violations. Patrick Hlongwane was both. // Hlongwane left South Africa in December 1986 to meet with the leadership of the ANC in exile. He had been part of the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation, but ... ... the first time he begged Madikizela-Mandela for more information about his son. The last time was when he appeared before the Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations ... ... the armed struggle, from the point of view of the liberation movements, was morally legitimate, necessary and justified, but we paid a cost in our humanity for doing the things we did and of course where we too from the side of the liberation movements abused human rights, we too have the shame ... |
