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WHITE, KimAge Description ... CIRCULAR NO 29 a) To all national and provincial welfare organisations b) To all offices of the department (for information) CO-ORDINATION OF WHITE AND NON-WHITE WELFARE WORK IN NATIONAL AND LOCAL WELFARE ORGANISATIONS 1) The Government’s policy on welfare organisations is based on the ... Disparities in the education of black and white medical students 63 Although the various South African medical schools were quite different from one another, they displayed strong similarities in their patterns of racism and the often overtly degrading treatment they inflicted on black medical ... White youth 40 White youth lived in an altogether different reality. According to Mr Pierre Reynolds of the Democratic Party (DP) Youth: Classified white under the apartheid regime, I and my peers, enjoyed privileges because of the colour of our skin. We were born with and we were brought up ... ■ WHITE COMMUNITIES 181 Apartheid policies resulted in the division of South African communities along racial lines. At a post hearing workshop of the Commission, Mr Tjol Lategan said: Politics beset every fibre of our community, in our schools, in our churches, in our agricultural unions, ... such operatives. MOTIVES AND PERSPECTIVES PAC/APLA perspectives 295. The PAC believed that its members were fighting a just war of liberation from white domination. Its definition of the enemy included all those identified as ‘settlers’ rather than ‘Africans’. This meant that the ... ... and assegais, which broke into houses and attacked residents. While this was happening, the third squad, reportedly consisting mainly of armed white men, surrounded the houses and gunned down anyone who tried to escape through the windows and doors. Twenty-one people died in Boipatong ... ... the effect it had on me, because it symbolises what – the same kind of effect it had on other members of the family. I became bitter towards white people, and the fact that the majority of them voted for the National Party election after election. I could never understand how they could ... Other (white) business 81 The relationship between apartheid and business in other sectors was complex and at times contradictory. Many businesses benefited from the tariff protection, subsidies, cheap loans and preferential contracts provided by the state. Those industries competing against the ... ... the Amnesty Committee, the applicants testified that they had been sent by their commanders in the Transkei to Newcastle to ‘identify areas where whites gather’. They said they targeted the disco because it was frequented by white patrons. They had initially targeted a restaurant in the area. ... ... and the cold war. Racism 19 Race was a powerful organising framework, drawn on, to varying degrees, by all parties in the conflict. 20 White South Africans were constantly told by their parents, schools, the media and many churches that black people were different from them and at a ... ■ THE CONTEXT Social and political context 6 Drawing on a number of extensive studies of the opinions of white students during the 1980s, Mr Jannie Gagiano of the Department of Political Science, University of Stellenbosch, painted a statistical picture of what he called the “closed ... ... Civilians and farmers as ‘legitimate’ targets 66. In its second submission to the Commission, the PAC confirmed its earlier stance that whites under apartheid were beneficiaries of the system, that every white person was part of the defence lines of apartheid, and that the Commission ... ... in 1960 to make provision for ‘Bantu’ programmes and a ‘Bantu’ programmes control board. This five-member board was composed entirely of white members and chaired by the chair of the SABC board. A totally separate structure, headed by thirty-five white supervisors, was set up to ... ... newspaper groups. 40 During the period under review, the publishing houses reflected the broader apartheid structures. Ownership was exclusively white. The term ‘opposition press’, used to describe the English-language press, was a misnomer. Within this then bi-polar world, there was only ... ... “perpetrators and victims” on the one hand and “beneficiaries and victims” on the other, deserves careful attention.19 99 The BMF accused white business of violating human rights in specific ways. White business supported and did not oppose the location of black residential areas at ... to apartheid labour law and influx control. Terreblanche argues, however, that Mr Botha’s intention at all times “was to entrench and perpetuate white control”. 55 The ANC submission identified the “spectacular economic growth” of Afrikaner controlled companies like SANLAM and ... ... For, simultaneous to the ‘gross’ abuses documented later in this report, millions of South Africans, and more particularly those who were not white, were subjected to racial and ethnic oppression and discrimination on a daily basis - in pursuit of a system which the Mandate chapter ... ... study of how the Sharpville massacre was reported in the South African press: for example, how the black reporters’ efforts were ignored and the white reporters’ versions used. b Reporting on June 16. On 16 June 1976, black journalists came into their own. They were the people able to ... ... Committee that, at an AWB meeting held in November 1990, his Commander AWB Commandant Volshenk had instructed members to implement a policy of ‘white-by-night’. This amounted to the re-implementation of the curfew laws of the apartheid era, which prohibited blacks from being in so-called ... ... addressing the question of how, in the light of this history, we should manage the past, and I want to address these comments in particular to the white community. The white community tends to take one of three positions in this regard. First, they say they are shocked by the revelations of the ... |
