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MEYER, JACAge Description the special hearings on the State Security Council held in Johannesburg (14 October). Former cabinet ministers Pik Botha, former Adriaan Vlok, Roelf Meyer and Leon Wessels gave testimony at the hearing. Although they all expressed regret for past evils, Leon Wessels alone delivered an apology in ... ... from survivors of the Silverton bank siege and the Church Street bombing carried out by Umkhonto we Sizwe and also from the sister of Leon Meyer ? who was killed in the 1985 Maseru cross border raid by the security forces. From Beaufort West we hear testimonies from Victoria West ... on the process of mourning; a report back on the Maseru cross border raid exposing the Vlakplaas unit responsible for the attack that killed MK Leon Meyer and eight others; and lastly, a report on the 1978 Cassinga massacre, the controversial SADF attack on a SWAPO settlement in Cassinga, Angola ... ... a new morality in South African society and includes interviews with Former NP Minister and co-leader of the United Democratic Movement, Roelf Meyer, Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Kader Asmal, and Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church Freek Swanepoel. In the final segment ... A few days before Christmas 1985, Jacqueline Quinn and her husband Leon Meyer were murdered by South African commandoes in their home on the outskirts of Maseru. Their baby daughter Phoenix witnessed the murder, but was found unhurt in her cot the next morning. During the Durban session of the ... The then Minister of Law and Order, Hernus Kriel and Minister of Defence Roelf Meyer also testified. // Those who were killed and injured at Bisho were at the wrong place at the wrong time, being led by irresponsible and reckless leaders against a tyrant and a regime with weapons wrongfully ... Dawn Botha’s (sister of Leon Meyer )TRC testimonial Murder of Jacqueline Quinn and Leon Meyer Jackie Quin, Leon Meyer killed in cross-border raid, Maseru, Lesotho ... of South Africa] // Adriaan Vlok, Deputy Minister of Defence between 1984 and 1986 and Minister of Law and Order between 1986 and 1991. // Roelf Meyer, Deputy Minister of Law and Order between 1986 and 1988 and Minister of Defence between August 1991 and May 1992. // We”ve achieved ... I never had knowledge of any organised attempt within the context of government to identify specific targets or to do planning for the destruction of such targets on the basis of conspiracy. It was 1 am, December 20, 1985. A few days earlier their daughter Phoenix had her 1st birthday. Leon was in the bathroom when the house was attacked. Jacqui was murdered first. We could later see how Leon tried to break off the burglar bars. Bullets lay strewn in the bathroom and there were bullet ... According to Hechter the youths had already gone to KwaNdebele to escape harassment by the security police in Mamelodi. Mamasela knew where to find them. Mamasela took us to the address. Mamasela, Gouws and Oosthuizen then entered the house and the next moment I heard gunfire. It was organized, it ... The system of separation I think was the basic core of many of the distortions as far as morality is concerned and double standards or a multiple of standards were applied, depending from which side of the community you came. I mean there was white preferential positions on the one side and ... Another very practical example that reminds us of the lack of this moral fibre in our society is what is happening often still in the practical everyday life of South Africa. One example that comes to my mind immediately, if I had to think about it now, is the Vryburg High School example where ... You fall short here of taking criminal responsibility and I think one could actually question that. The whole concept of vicarious liability, the putting into place things like Vlakplaas, the CCB, where you must have a sense that things can go horribly wrong. Now I think that’s what we would like ... I grew up under the apartheid system. I was one of the beneficiaries of the apartheid system, because I was born right at that time when the National Party government took over in the late forties. And what I experienced in my young life was of course the benefits of a racially separate society in ... I want to give thanks for our country, for our people. I want to give thanks that you two young men should have … the honesty that you have demonstrated is one that doesn’t come easily to anyone of us I think and it must be at some cost to yourselves. And I just hope you are aware that you have ... South Africans, specifically referring to white South Africans in many instances have heard of these atrocities for the first time and they would not understand the future or know where to go in the future if they didn’t get that insight. So in that regard it was good. I’ve always taken the view that the TRC is a very necessary vehicle, a very necessary instrument to put things in perspective in terms of where we’re coming from. It’s difficult to reflect now on how complete that function was fulfilled by the TRC, also in relation to the question of ... |
