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VAN WYK, LeonAge Description ... 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 which he ... ... and wife who believe the applicants are still not telling the full story. The second segment features interviews with TRC photographers Benny Gool, Leon Muller, Gillian Edelstein and George Hallet. This is followed by an update on the latest amnesty findings and in the final segment the ... ... 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, ... ... testimonies 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 ... also profiles the killing of three Bongulethu youths by police and evidence on the brutality of Bongulethu kitskonstabels. The episode ends with Gen Leon Mellet, former spokesperson of the Ministry of Law and Order?s views on the TRC process and a segment on the protection of TRC witnesses. ... In 1993 right wingers Leon Froneman and Pieter Harmse, both members of the Boere Weerstands Beweging placed a bomb in an Indian owned shopping complex at Bronkhorstspruit in Gauteng. ... Adamson and the police agent murdered Leon and his wife. All the policemen involved received the police star for bravery from Commissioner Johan van der Merwe. I would like to know why the TRC did not get the Nortje statement from Dr D’Oliveira to give to the victims’ next of kin. And why ... Murder of Jacqueline Quinn and Leon Meyer Jackie Quin, Leon Meyer killed in cross-border raid, Maseru, Lesotho ... you to the four actors who starred in this week”s drama. Pik Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1977 and 1994. // ”En ek gee nie vanaand om of Oliver Tambo deur Reagan ontmoet word en of hy deur Gorbachev ontmoet word nie en of hy deur Kohl ontmoet word nie en of hy deur ... Dawn Botha’s (sister of Leon Meyer )TRC testimonial General Leon Mellet’s impression of the Truth Commission 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 ... General Leon Mellet was the public face of the ministry of law and order for many years. We met him on his farm, outside George where he recently retired, and we asked him about his and his colleagues’ impression of the Truth Commission process. // I’m worried that this is going to go down in ... I can’t give the exact detail how we did the layout and the planning because for the future those type of plans may be used again, so I can’t divulge information regarding that. But the people waited, Vlakplaas members with Piet Retief members, for the people to infiltrate. And what happened is ... I further do not believe that the political defence of ‘I did not know’ is available to me, because in many respects I believe I did not want to know. In my own way I had my suspicions of things that had caused discomfort in official circles, but because I did not have the facts to substantiate ... Were the infiltrators armed? // Definitely. Both groups, as you know it was two incidents, two separate incidents. Both groups were armed. // No there were no firearms on them. There was absolutely no firearms found on these people and nothing were handed to me. Every decision was taken within the ambit of the law as it was known then. I am now more than ever convinced that apartheid was a terrible mistake that blighted our land. South Africans did not listen to the laughing and the crying of each other. I’m sorry that I have been so hard of hearing for such a long time. We were actually restricted not to sort of take pictures at that time when that happened, when we heard the Archbishop sort of broke down. We all flied out of there, which was the media room to try to get pictures of it. With the result, we got there and it was all over and done with. But then I ... |
