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MKHIZE, (first name not given)Age Description The first segment of this episode reports on this week?s amnesty hearings held in Port Elizabeth (29 September to 3 October 1997). Former policemen involved in the Motherwell car bomb - that killed three fellow Eastern Cape policemen - gave testimony, including former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de ... ... processes of the Amnesty Committee including issues like remorse and justice. It also reflects on amnesties refused on the basis that racism does not constitute a political motive. Also included is a segment on reparation and rehabilitation. The Special Report team speaks to some of the first ... the SADF. The episode ends with a segment on allegations of racial tension within the TRC that includes interviews with Truth Commissioners Hlengiwe Mkhize, Alex Boraine and Dumisa ... If people are assisted financially over time with counselling and guidance it gives them an opportunity to improve their lot so to say, in a variety of ways. But I mean as I’ve said to you really we are there as advocates for victims. At the end of the day the government of the day has got to ... He told us that what’s important is if we do allow that this country of us be taken by communists we should know that we have stabbed ourselves with our own spear and he said we have to answer to our grandchildren. // How would you characterize the training that you received? // Under ... Truth Commissioner Hlengiwe Mkhize Truth Commissioner Hlengiwe Mkhize still sees herself as the serious young girl from Soweto who went to the University of Zululand in 1973, deeply committed to the struggle for equal rights for all South Africans. Despite her training as a clinical psychologist and years of lecturing on the ... During the coming weeks we’ll be taking a behind the scenes look at some of the people who drive the truth and reconciliation process. Tonight we meet one of the 17 commissioners, Hlengiwe Mkhize at her home near Johannesburg. Mkhize, who met her husband at a student rally and started a family while still at university longs for the day when she will be able to devote most of her time to her family. That day will come she says, after she’s completed her work on the TRC. ... expect me to put a red carrot here and say oh this is a green one. I really find it simplistic and naïve, if I may put it strongly that way. I’m not a spokesperson for the TRC, but if I may speak for myself. We are a system; the TRC is an organisational structure with systems which have ... At a media conference in Cape Town on Thursday the TRC finally announced its R&R policy publicly. They’ve come up with a figure of R3 billion, based on a projection of 22 000 eligible victims. // First to make sure that those things do not happen again… Please get a helicopter, I don’t care how you do it, but please charter one. We have got to fly above the valleys, above the valley of death to see what’s happening. The cops say they are scared. At 01:15 we fly from Oribi Airport in a light plane. We are above 1000 feet above the burning ... much … he pointed a gun and put a gun here on my [forehead] … you’ll get this. And I said to him. Oh please, don’t kill me. Let me bury them first then you can kill ... We are looking for measures which will restore people’s dignity which has been lost. We felt, we are looking for measures which will somehow assist people to more or less be able to live a life they would have lived was it not for the violation. overnight looking at what people are saying. With each statement you’ll generate 20 questions, because you want the truth so that these things are not part of our history again. And after that when I came back here I got sick. I just woke up with this pain and I mean, I couldn’t walk, I ... I sat there imagining the helplessness they must have gone through in a dark village, and you are surrounded by the police, the lack of protection, the fear, the intimidation. I then started saying, look it’s like we didn’t know what was happening in the country. But I’m pleased that some of ... or assisted to survive or enter the market in society, we are looking at possibilities of putting in place those measures which we know will benefit not only those individuals or this generation but other generations to come. Like, if you put money into a scholarship in the name of a person who ... life so to say. But it’s like things got worse almost on a daily basis. But I’ve been saying to myself if I don’t do it now, old age is really not far, so I need to. I hope to get a job which will enable me to spend quality time … I mean my daughter next year might go to the university. ... Gcina Mkhize was one of the young, angry Inkatha supporters who volunteered for training. He told the Commission the trainees were welcomed by white South African soldiers when they arrived at the secret Caprivi base after a clandestine flight. ... its final recommendations which were presented to the government last week. In an interview on Wednesday this week, TRC Commissioner Hlengiwe Mkhize said she hope the government will address the compensation of victims as a matter of urgency. ... |
