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WHITE, KimAge Description Nobody can think that people can be buried here,but now my worry is… I want know about this white manwho was allowing these things here in his farm. It was a white person wearing balaclavas. Round the eyes I could see and the nose was a sharp nose and it wasn’t that of our black people. The conflict of the past is not only about white oppressors. When we talk of reconciliation there are so many shades of the past that now have become levels for reconciliation. What about black informers, black policemen, black councillors, black collaborators? What about the ongoing strife between ... ... the assassination of five members of the Mozambique resistance movement, then still based in South Africa. They were suspected of killing their white leader Orlando Cristina near Pretoria in April ... ... Security Council and ‘Operation Marion’ was born. In 1986 200 young Inkatha men were secretly flown from Caprivi where they were trained by white Defence Force instructors. When they came back to KwaZulu-Natal many of them became professional killers; they were responsible for hundreds of ... Phillip Matela, Thami Hlobo and Jeremiah Moikabi applied for amnesty for the killing of four white motorists who had ventured into Mshenguville township near Odendaalsrus in 1990. The applicants said they killed them because they thought they were IFP supporters and wanted to protect their ... The hearing built up to the moment when the NG Kerk, the former white state church, that once declared apartheid to be based on the Bible, sat down before the Commission. But just before them, came their former black, coloured and Indian daughter churches. ... and fatherland was backed up at home with medal parades and military manoeuvres. The news was clinical and heroic. To keep the machine rolling and white South Africa’s morale up, the blood and guts, the dying and killing was not shown. Those who came back from the killing fields came to a ... ... something like this. In the office, yes we’re a rainbow nation and in the taverns and in the pubs it’s something like staff, black people staff white people. And I’m not sure if that is reconciliation. At a personal level, if there were gestures to respond to then perhaps we could work ... She was the first one to start beating us one by one with fists. She asked us to come to her one by one and asked you. Why are you sleeping with the white reverend? And then the minute you said you wanted to answer, then she start beating you. So we were screaming a lot and they were singing while ... ... the townships and they had to counter the rising tide of black resistance. They were just soldiers, used and abused by the politicians to keep the white man in power and uphold ... In 1990, a group of young ultra-right wingers started a long term plan to ensure continued white rule in South Africa. The political leader of the group was Jean du Plessis. His father, Arman du Plessis was a member of the Boere Bervrydings Beweging. He had a strong influence on his son and his ... ... stories is very important. That’s where we started and we have no reason to change our mind about that. The catharsis that has taken place for white and black alike, men and women, old, young, seems to have done something towards the reconciling work that we are committed to. But I think ... ... circles holding court in public and in the media. // Stop interrupting now Mr. Fourie, give me the chance now. I listened to you. Because the white people of South Africa have been deprived of the right to exercise their opposition to what the National Party government is doing at the ... that says reconciliation lies in the fact that the victims can actually speak in front of the nation and reconcile themselves, it’s not entirely a white black thing, or a former government and victim thing. Reconciliation could mean victims get the truth out, speak in front of the nation and ... ... to the ground. In its place came Triomf, ‘triumph’, victory. The sterile clean streets that emerged from the rubble was indeed a triumph for white rule. Sophiatown’s spirit was broken, its people were dispersed. But today in an era which perhaps strives to regain the free, non racial ... ... His killers say they killed him because he was a leading communist and MK leader. Indeed, Hani was probably among the top five people most hated by white South Africans. The apartheid state tried to kill him several times, but after his death even those who hated him came to appreciate that not ... ... say and when you move it that way it’s different, it’s a different story altogether. What I’m saying is we need to reach a country where even white people can actually celebrate those people. ... ... at the SABC’s role as chief propagandists of the state, the police spies who infiltrated newspapers, the experiences of black journalists in a white dominated environment and the response of the media bosses. Let’s look at the SABC first. Television came to South Africa only in 1976. While ... ... you did fell short of what you should have done in the circumstances. But why? // The overwhelming majority of attorneys in private practice were white males as you set it out in Paragraph 3 of the summary. The suggestion that what really happened was that these people were beneficiaries of the ... |
