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WHITE, KimAge Description ... Security Force Auxiliaries who were deployed to a farm near Pretoria. Simultaneously, the SADF launched Operation Winter to recruit mainly white members of Rhodesia’s various counter-insurgency units. The operation was directed by Major General FW Loots, then general officer commanding ... ... abuses in South West Africa. The unit was set up by Brigadier Hans Dreyer of the SAP Security Branch in June 1979. While its officers were mainly white South African policemen, the unit recruited mostly from the local black South West African population and eventually numbered about 1 000. Cast ... ... attitudes to any apparent representative of apartheid authority: As we passed the municipal office, the students remembered that there was a white man when they passed at the door of the office. Now unfortunately this was Dr Edelstein and the students went for him. They stoned him and so ... ... from Canada, Mr Rautenbach told the Commission how he escaped conscription by leaving the country. The people I went to school with and my other white friends and acquaintances all went one by one to do their military service. One couldn’t really blame them - how do you go against such a big ... ... the formation of the Concerned South Africans Group (COSAG) in 1993 and was reflected in weapons smuggling and paramilitary training (mostly on white farms and KwaZulu nature reserves). There were a few cases where IFP members and right-wingers took part in joint attacks. The most notable ... Mr Tim Ledgerwood, a former conscript 34 Mr Ledgerwood had a privileged upbringing in a white, English-speaking, middle class and deeply religious home. He said that: The society that I grew up in asked no questions about military duty (this was in 1980). You went to school, you registered when ... ... to articulate their needs and translate them into viable development programmes. 60 Compulsory military conscription required many young white males in South Africa to face the reality of apartheid, bringing them face to face with the knowledge that a war was being fought. Some were ... apartheid legislation 41 Overall, what the National Party did in its first ten to twelve years of power amounted, in Leo Kuper’s words9, to “a white counter-revolution” to forestall the perceived (although, as will be noted later, misinterpreted and exaggerated) growing threat to white ... 1992. He was then deployed to Cape Town by APLA commander ‘Power’ and given instructions to launch attacks on members of the security forces and white people congregated in ‘white’ areas. The Claremont restaurant attack (see below) was one such attack. 77. In addition to the Khayelitsha ... ... and a Gerrie Coetzee”, but she persevered until her shirt was “in tatters”. Ms Khutwane’s anger was heightened by the fact that her young, white male attacker “could be as old as one of my children”. 82 While several white women had been detained before, Ms Stephanie Kemp was ... ... by the Empangeni police station and told to fetch his nephew’s hands, which were then buried. 262 Three months after the burial, an unknown white man in civilian clothing sought out Maxwell Dweba and took him to a white Ford Escort in Gillespie Street, Durban. In the boot were his dead ... Aksie Kontra 435 137 There is also evidence that these funds were used to mobilise the white right wing, which formed an organisation called Aksie Kontra 435. One of its members, Mr Horst Klenz, applied for amnesty [AM0316/96] for his involvement, with two others, (Mr Leonard Veneendal and Mr ... cent of South Africa’s total population. According to the 1993 census, the population composition is: 58.4 per cent coloured people, 23.7 per cent white people, 17.1 per cent African people and 0.8 per cent ‘Asian’ people. Sixty-eight per cent of the entire population of the province (or ... ... nothing will stop us.’ He said it was ‘unfortunate’ that they had ended up attacking a house that was not occupied by the police. All whites, however, were regarded as supporters of the government, with whom APLA was still locked in armed struggle because the oppression of blacks ... ... one of many incidents in the area that afternoon. Bands of toyi-toying2 1 0 youths had been throwing stones at delivery vehicles and cars driven by white people. A delivery vehicle had been pushed over and set alight. Only the arrival of the police prevented further damage. 172. The applicants ... FINDS THAT PAC OR POQO MILITANTS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF AT LEAST EIGHT PEOPLE IN THE PERIOD UP TO AND INCLUDING 1963. THESE INCLUDED TWO WHITES AND THREE SUSPECTED ‘COLLABORATORS’ IN PAARL AND AT LEAST THREE POLICEMEN IN THE PENINSULA. POQO ADOPTED AGGRESSIVE CONSCRIPTION METHODS, ... Commission’s East Rand hearings. Both were held under police guard in hospital after they had been shot. They were later charged the murder of the white policeman, along with at least thirty other ANC supporters. They were subsequently acquitted. 728 Mr Samson Zolani Xakeka [JB05056/01ERKWA] ... example, to treatment meted out by supervisors to lower-graded (mainly black) workers. This may have been done under the implicit assumption of most whites during the times that the level of human rights that might be enjoyed by different groups was racially differentiated. Combined with possible ... ... the t avern was a place largely used by students and other young people, and that those who made use of its facilities were not only members of the white community, that is the people frequently referred to as ‘settlers’ by APLA members. Of the three young ladies killed, only one was White; ... ... 310. On the whole, applicants refused to apologise for attacks and lives lost, particularly where the victims had been members of the police or of white political organisations, white civilians or white farmers. Yet many expressed remorse for the consequences of their actions, and the desire ... |
