JIM, Richard

... the HRV Committee hearings in Durban (24 to 25 October 1996) from where we hear testimonies from relatives of assassinated Durban academic, Doctor Richard Turner, and evidence of attempted assassinations on Fatima Meer and Harold Strachan. We also hear about incidents of police brutality in the ...

... Jacques Hechter, Wouter Mentz and Paul van Vuuren), which continued this week in Pretoria. This episode focuses on the murder of police sergeant Richard Motasi and his wife Irene and questions why Irene Motasi and Florence Ribeiro were killed along with their husbands. In the following segment ...

The first segment of this episode shows the meeting between Richard and Irene Motasi?s son, Tshidiso, and one of the policemen involved in the couple?s murder: Paul van Vuuren. The segment includes interviews with other members of the Motasi family. The following segment deals with the detention ...

... although this was not a legal requirement for the granting of amnesty. The following segment provides profiles on Truth Commissioners Richard Lyster, Mary Burton, Yasmin Sooka and Sisi Khampepe. The final segment is a report on CCB members Staal Burger, Slang van Zyl and Callas ...

... Brandfort and the Three Million Gang in Kroonstad. The remainder of the episode comprises an introduction to filmmaker Jann Turner, daughter of Dr Richard Turner - who was assassinated in 1978 by an unknown Special Forces agent - and the screening of Turner?s documentary film on the search for ...

Though Ronald’s death was tragic, at least Richard believes it was not completely senseless. // I believe that his death made a contribution to the new South Africa. That all that suffering we went through wasn’t really in vain.

Doctor Richard Turner was an activist and left wing academic in Durban during the seventies. The South African government found his thoughts and ideas so dangerous that he was followed, harassed, his phones tapped and house bugged. In 1973 he was placed under a 5 year banning order ending his ...

They took ice cubes and forced them into my anus. One policeman ordered them to bring the electrocution equipment. While these ice cubes were in my anus I was electrocuted. // This little bottle of milk was going to be poured onto my forehead. I didn’t know what was happening. They were aiming ...

Mister Joubert’s position was that had he found out that he was acting bona fide and that the operation was in fact authorized by the police chiefs. // Are you saying to this Commission that all you could do in the circumstances was simply to say this thing should never happen again? // Mister ...

The assassination of Richard Turner and other covert security branch operations

Assassination of Dr Richard Turner

Truth Commissioners Richard Lyster, Mary Burton, Sisi Khampepe and Yasmin Sooka

Murder of Sergeant Richard Motasi by Jacques Hechter and Paul van Vuuren

Richard felt angry and betrayed at the loss of his brother. For me it was very difficult because not only was he my brother, he was also a friend. We were inseparable, because we are a big family, but the two of us we were always together. The anger I could handle but who do I trust? First of all ...

07:53 and Human Rights Committee members Richard Lyster and Ilan Lax arrive for breakfast. Minutes later when most of the TRC staff members have joined them the conversation takes on a more serious tone. // ‘What Ilan and I talked about is that basically we should mark this, the end of the HRV ...

... of five security policemen. We also tell you the stories of two police executions in the Boland. But first, the assassination of Durban academic Richard Turner in 1978. This week his daughters, his wife and friends relive the horror of the most mysterious political killing the last two ...

... question of symbolic rehabilitation of our nation, monuments, walls of remembrance, healing rituals. But we start with the story of police sergeant Richard Motasi. Jacques Hechter says he killed Motasi on the 30th of November 1987 because he became too friendly with the ANC, but there could have ...

... hearing in East London to this hearing in Ladybrand, we have slowly learnt more and more about the cruel past we’ve had to deal with. But also as Richard says about the incredible bravery and fortitude of ...

The people who took part in the KwaMakhutha killing were not members of the VIP unit, they were members of the offensive unit and they were not involved in a war situation as you earlier described. They attacked a house and they killed 13 people, most of whom were women and children. // Therefore ...

We are waiting as are many other people to see what the outcome of that case will be and judgement is expected fairly soon, later in September. And we will decide after judgement has been handed down as to whether we will subpoena those people. They may well apply for amnesty; one would expect them ...