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ZULU, (first name not given)Age Description The first segment of this episode shows the meeting between Richard and Irene Motasi?s son, Tshidiso, and one of the policemen involved in the couple?s murder: Paul van Vuuren. The segment includes interviews with other members of the Motasi family. The following segment deals with the detention ... When he was in Lusaka Thami Zulu was not confined to a detention center. He spent most of his time in residences although separated from the rest of the ANC community. At no time was he tortured or subjected to undue pressure. When he was released he was ill; independent pathologists found that he ... ... executed by order of the ANC’s military tribunal. But questions around the mysterious death of MK commander Thami Zulu in Lusaka in 1989 were not answered to full satisfaction. Zulu’s parents told the Truth Commission last month their son was detained in Lusaka for a period in the ... ‘Intelezi’ is a Zulu word which defines a substance smeared by warriors on their bodies before they go into battle. It has been a custom of the African people long before King Shaka’s time. It can only be given out by inyangas [herbalists] and is associated with power. Some people call it ... ... his death has been given. The first inquiry found he was poisoned and that he had TB and AIDS. The ANC this week repeated that the organisation was not to blame for his death. Thami Zulu’s parents pleaded strongly with the Truth Commission this week. ... The South African public was lead to believe that political violence in KwaZulu-Natal was historical faction fighting along tribal lines, part of the spirit and nature of the Zulu, Shaka’s children. // …and we’ll do everything to preserve the Zulu’s role which was followed by King Shaka … ... ... every white South African in this room has been trained by the law – which I think was the conscription law. // Just for your information I was not so trained, I’d have never owned a gun, I don’t know even what it looks like. So you have a benefit over me. // Mr. Mkhwanazi it’s also a ... We told them we had come to find out why our son was in detention. They told us that our son was not detained. Of course this was proved afterwards to have been a lie. Six months later his wife phoned me to say TZ was now in an ANC cell and in solitary confinement and that he was being tortured. ... white civilians, that by typifying white civilians in the manner in which you did carte blanch, you would have violated international law. // We did not attack white civilians but we destroyed European invaders, dispossessors, criminals, because here you want to create a situation whereby our ... Two Zulu youths were arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder. is a staunch supporter of the Inkatha Freedom Party. At this rally in April 1994 his Natal Boer Commando pledged their loyalty and protection to the Zulu king. Veenendal has played a key role in the military training of IFP militants. But while Veenendal escaped justice in Namibia he found himself ... ... got an ID I’m a Coloured person. In those days it was so crowded, when the police were getting you here and they suspect you to be a Xhosa or a Zulu or an African person, if I may put it in that way, they had a tactic they used. You know there are those words; they call it ‘jakkals.’ Now ... The Vusimuzi hostel in Tembisa was not only a hideout for the notorious Toasters gang. It was built in the late seventies as a labour compound to serve the industries of Kempton Park and the East Rand. In the early nineties it became much more. During a spree of violence residents who were not Zulu ... The Truth Commission will receive about 600 applications from APLA. The entire Military Commission and High Command will be applying. For the first time we know who they are. // ‘Military Commission // Daniel Mohato Mofokeng // Barney Hlatshwayo // Morgan Gxokwa // Thobile Gola // Enoch Zulu // ... There were shots and people were crying. As I was running a white person said ‘Zulu, capture him, there he is’ and I went straight into the passage. When I got into the passage they couldn’t see me anymore and I heard a loud bang of a gun behind me, seven times. I ran just alongside the ... ... got an ID I am a coloured person. In those days it was so crowded, when the police were getting you here and they suspect you to be a Xhosa or a Zulu or an African person if I may put it in that way, they had a tactic they used. You know there are those words: they call it ‘jakkals.’ Now ... There were shots and people were crying. As I was running a white person said ‘Zulu, capture him, there he is’ and I went straight into the passage. When I got into the passage they couldn’t see me anymore and I heard a loud bang of a gun behind me, seven times. I ran just alongside the ... ... to the shootings. // No policeman came to me to tell me anything. I saw it with my own eyes on TV, that’s the time I collapsed. // There was not even one policeman who came to inform me about this. // I went to see the mother of Jabulani Miya and of Christopher Piet. I was the first person ... Within days two Zulu youths were brought here, to Winnie Mandela’s house. She asked they be shown the location of Dr Asvat’s surgery. Their guide was Katiza. So that when I was born at Mzimkulu on a farm, I grew up there, I schooled there but my father was interested that we must not lose touch with Natal. So, most of my father’s children, including me, did most of their schooling in Natal so that we could not lose touch with our roots. That is why ... |
