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WESSELS, SAge Description ... forty miles inside Matabeleland in a contact with the Zimbabwean army. They were Sergeants Robert Trevor Beech, Peter David Berry, and John Andrew Wessels and a black serviceman known to the Commission only as ‘Private Khiwa’. (While the SADF acknowledged the death of the three whites, it ... ... Minister ‘Pik’ Botha submitted responses to the Commission’s questions that were rich in detail, while former Ministers Roelf Meyer and Leon Wessels frankly acknowledged the wrongs of the former ruling party’s past. Mr Wessels cast doubt on the argument by members of the former cabinet ... ... conceded that it was not possible to deny knowledge of torture. At the Commission’s special hearing on the role of the State Security Council, Wessels said that “it was foreseen that under those circumstances people would be detained, people would be tortured, everybody in this country ... ... the Party was not aware and which it never would have condoned.2 9 34. Contrary to Mr de Klerk’s claim of ignorance of the practice, Mr Leon Wessels, the National Party’s former deputy Minister of Police, conceded that it was not possible to deny knowledge of torture. Mr Wessels ... ... evaluation of roles played by various actors. This is precluded by the moral-ethical approach. Whatever reservations people like FW de Klerk, Leon Wessels, Roelf Meyer and Pik Botha might have had, whatever the moral imperative might have expected of them, one can but imagine what might have ... ... of persons drawing attention to abuses by the security forces. This is summed up in the words of a former Minister of Law and Order, Mr Leon Wessels, to the effect that ‘we did not wish to know’. 99 It is on these grounds that the Commission finds in relation to members of the SSC, ... ... not believe the political defence of ‘we did not know’ is available to me because in many respects I believe we did not want to know. (Mr Leon Wessels, State Security Council hearing.) The Security Forces will hammer them, wherever they find them. What I am saying is the policy of the ... ... event hearing in Bisho, the following statements were made: 10 Archbishop Tutu in response to the submissions of former NP ministers Meyer and Wessels at the State Security Council Hearing, 15 October 1997. Colonel Schobesberger (former Chief of Staff, Ciskei Defence Force): From my point ... ... Mildred MARULA, Patrick Pheteswayo MARUMO, Baslius Matlogelwa MARUMO, Elizabeth Lesholobe MARUMO, James December MARUMO, Maki Martha MARUMO, Wessels Skuta Mahoko MARUNGWANA, Lucas Billy-Boy MARUPING, Jackonia Rakoena MARUTLA, Maphuti MARWANE, Wilfred Sebonege MARWANQANA, Alfred Fikile ... ... report on the events in the district of Vereeniging (especially in Sharpville and Evaton) and Vanderbijlpark, Transvaal.Date of Report: 1960Chair: WESSELS, P.J.Ref: Ann. 125-611961 Judicial Commission on Langa Location RiotsMandate: To inquire into and report on the riots in Langa, district of ... ... Unit and that one of them had apparently thrown a hand grenade. 329 Four people were shot dead in the ambush and the informant and Constable Wessels of the Reaction Unit were injured. There were AK-47s and hand grenades with the bodies of the dead. The bodies were taken to the Zeerust ... ... was turned down. 151 Durban security police called to testify included Colonel Dreyer, Warrant Officer Botha, Lieutenant CR McDuling, Captain D Wessels and Captain JC Fourie, all of whom denied assaulting the detainees. However, several accused as well as several of those who served as ... ... office by the mid-1980s, and a telling endorsement of the view expressed to the Commission by former Deputy Minister of Law and Order, Mr Leon Wessels, when he spoke of the lack of a spirit of enquiry in the National Party at that time. 457 On 28 March 1988, SADF Special Forces attacked a ... ... Zenzile WEAKLEY, Alistair James WEAKLEY, Glen Pearsall WEBER, Karl Andrew WEBSTER, David WEBSTER, Edward WEKENI, Joseph WESINYANE, Moses Mathere WESSELS, Tandiwe Rina WESTLEY, Helen WESTLEY, Lorraine WEWERS, Saul Jacobus WHEELER, Boyce Michael WHITFIELD, Deric John WIEHAHN, Geraldine Mathilda ... |
