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WHITE, KimAge Description ... were raped, hacked, stabbed, shot, beaten and disembowelled. Hundreds of homes were attacked and looted. Victims said they had been attacked by white men in security force uniform and black men with red and white head bands speaking Zulu and chanting Zulu slogans. 579 Conflict had been ... benefited financially and materially from apartheid policies. Some examples illustrating this finding emanate from points made during submissions: a White-owned large-scale agricultural, farming and agri-business enterprises benefited from the colonial-era restrictions on black land ownership that ... ... statistics. It was, indeed, overwhelmingly Africans who came to tell the Commission about gross violations of human rights. 15 The low number of white deponents is not wholly a consequence of hostility towards the Commission by large sections of the white community. Indeed, the Commission made ... of reconciliation that have happened through the Commission. Examples abound in the chapter on reconciliation. I want to make a heartfelt plea to my white fellow South Africans. On the whole we have been exhilarated by the magnanimity of those who should by rights be consumed by bitterness and a ... 29. Amongst the amnesty applications granted were the following: Attack on Giovanni Francescato 30. Mr Giovanni Francescato, an elderly white male, was attacked at Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape on 6 September 1992 when three armed men burst into his home and assaulted him. Mr Francescato ... ... Asvat’s surgery on the day of the protest. She told the Commission: The door just opened and a group of children, these students in black and white came in. I mean, these children were bleeding all over. I mean, their white shirts were red, they were just a mess. They were bleeding all over ... ... Differences also emerged between businesses in different sectors of the economy: between businesses of different sizes, between predominantly white-led business and predominantly black-led business organisations and, most dramatically, between representatives of employers and trade unions.4 ... terms of the categories created by apartheid legislation, 81 per cent of the population of the province is African, 9.6 per cent Asian, 6.2 per cent white and 3.2 per cent coloured. 6 The Free State is much more sparsely populated and, although a larger geographical area, the population is under ... ... provided the police with covert credit cards. A bank that provides a covert credit card to the police to help them with, say, investigations into white-collar fraud, is in a different position to one which knowingly provides covert credit cards to death squads to help them lure their victims. ... ... attacks and assassinations by other Poqo members; Representatives of traditional authority in the homelands, that is Chiefs and headmen; White civilians in non-combat situations.69 6. In making these findings, the Commission relied on evidence received from victims and witnesses who ... ... history more dramatically and drastically re-shaped the social map of this country. Not only did it lay the basis for the territorial separation of whites and Africans; it destroyed, at a stroke, a thriving African landowning and peasant agricultural sector. It did so by prohibiting African land ... ■ THE LAW AND VIOLENCE IN SOUTH fact that MASA failed to respond appropriately to the health needs of the majority of South Africans. MASA was always, without doubt, a part of the white establishment … and for the most part and in most contexts, shared the worldview and political beliefs of that establishment. Inescapably, it ... ... The Anglican Lord Milner must be as problematic to Afrikaner Christians as DF Malan, the dominee, is to us. In a strange way, I think many white Anglicans in the CPSA owe an apology to the Afrikaner community for their attitude of moral superiority. I became aware of this need when, as ... ... 44. The first such policy was that expressed in the APLA slogan ‘one settler, one bullet’. Given the fact that APLA and the PAC regarded all white people as settlers, this slogan actually translated into ‘one white person, one bullet’. Thus individuals became legitimate targets simply ... ... 1991 and 1994 and formed part of the PAC’s ‘Operation Great Storm’. In this campaign, the targets of APLA attacks were, on the one hand, white-owned farms in the Orange Free State, the Eastern Cape and areas bordering the Transkei and, on the other, public places in urban areas ... ... Sampie Terreblanche, listed the following seven reasons why “political supremacy and racial capitalism impoverished Africans and enriched whites undeservedly”: Firstly, the Africans were deprived of a large part of land on which they conducted successful traditional farming for ... groups. Where hospitals served more than one group, separate wards were allocated to different racial groups. Generally, the facilities available to whites were far superior to those available to blacks in terms of technology, sanitary conditions, supplies and the number of patients per health ... Volume SIX Section THREE ChapterS I X Right-Wing Groups ■ INTRODUCTION 8. For the purposes of this chapter, the definition of the ‘white right wing’ refers to all white groups and individuals who organised themselves to campaign for self-determination and who mobilised against the ... between the pre- and post-1990 periods. Case study: C1/Vlakplaas 157. Thirty-five of the forty-seven Vlakplaas members who applied for amnesty were white Security Branch operatives and seven were black. Only five C1-based askaris applied for amnesty.68 158. Vlakplaas is a 44-hectare farm just ... |
