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WHITE, KimAge Description ... iron pipe I noticed that blood was oozing from the old man’s nostrils and ears as well as the mouth. And I saw the old man’s eyes turning into white pupils, they were turning. It was as if he was fainting or just about to die. The beatings went on and on until I saw the old man lying ... ... about her concern for the soldiers who fought on both sides of the apartheid struggle. She specifically referred to the soldiers who fought the white government’s war in neigbouring states. Earlier this year we showed you a programme on the scars left on the soldiers who fought in South ... Exiled and angry. Hain hurled himself into anti-apartheid activity. He attacked the core of white South Africa’s white identity: sports. // ‘How about rugby? Did you know that that great South African institution was invented by the English back in 1823 and where would Vrystaat be without it? ... ... to go out and prepare the groundwork for APLA and to make the township ungovernable I regarded this as an instruction to also harm, injure and kill white people. When I saw that the driver of the vehicle which we had stoned and which had come to a standstill was a white person I immediately asked ... If you want to know whether white judges who went onto the bench had, across the spectrum, a range of views which white people in South Africa entertained I wouldn’t have thought it was necessary to ask me that question. The answer is rather too self evident. Let’s turn our attention now to another memory of our past that should not be lost. In the late 1700s the white settlers in South Africa forced slaves to carry identity books so that they could control their movements. In some way or another pass books had existed since then. But when the ... The 1953 Bantu Education Act, separated schools and curricula for white and black, inferior education for black communities. It began with the National Party’s rise to power and the policies this man, Dr Hendrik F Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid. He was determined to deny black people, ... Matthew Goniwe was going to be transferred back to Graaf-Reinett. He was from Graaf-Reinett, but he was staying here. And now we are going to have a white principal, Mr. Visagie in the high school. That’s when things go upside down, because we didn’t want him to leave. We didn’t want the ... of their children, how their children were murdered, that they could have stood up to say. Yes, we are willing to forgive. But when you think of the white woman in King Williamstown who says after she’s been through a hand grenade attack and there’s shrapnel in her body still. She says that ... ... school was the combination of endless problems Helena de Kock experienced right from the start. The government, the Klerksdorp city council and the white community seemed determined to see them fail. They could not register the school until they had 20 white children. The city council would not ... Even with FW de Klerk’s reforms education was still racially divided. The National Party continued to spend more and more per rand on white education. By 1989, R2900 on every white child and R650 on a black child. Fourie would like to see him explain his government’s education policy to the ... ... which it found itself. Just as apartheid divided people according to colour, so did it divide the church, our church, into a black community and a white community. There was in effect a black church and a white ... White people were the privileged ones in the old South Africa, but there was one way in which the repressive apartheid government touched their lives: young white men were forced to join the army to fight fellow citizens and freedom fighters in neighbouring states. Wallace McGregor was one of many ... It doesn’t matter if its black or white when one walks into the gallows room it’s absolutely professional. You don’t think about white or black. One could say that it was holy, you respected that place. // Warrant Officer Johan Steynberg escorted condemned prisoners to their death for over ... ... fired three shots at me. As he pointed the gun at me I saw his hand. They were all wearing balaclavas, so I saw his hand and it was definitely a white man or white person. When this car had sped past me, I then ran back home with the intention of telling my parents that some thieves had just ... ... before, I didn’t know that we were going to attack a church. I didn’t know that the target was a church, but I felt as I’ve said before the whites were also using churches to oppress the blacks. They took our country using churches and bibles as we are reading the history, we as the ... ... a unit with an excellent record of solving crimes has never come up with even a strong lead let alone a murderer. It was rare for the killer of a white person in a white neighbourhood in 1978 not to be apprehended. Even more unusual when the victim was under surveillance, as we know my father ... With their greatest battles behind them the war was not yet over. When the number of black students increased the white parents withdrew their children. They ran back to enjoy the privileges of apartheid, because I don’t care who we are, we had a period where all the whites enjoyed the privileges ... Let’s turn our attention now to another memory of our past that should not be lost. In the late 1700s the white settlers in South Africa forced slaves to carry identity books so they could control their movement. In some way or another pass books had existed since then, but when the National ... There is an expectation, rightly or wrongly, that accusations or allegations are going to be made against white persons and white government and that may cause people to feel that they will be uncomfortable sitting out there, even if they themselves, particularly had nothing to do with gross human ... |
