Trc Episode 01 Part 04

Colonel Niewoudt's lawyer, Francois van der Merwe, faxed us his client's response to the allegation. He says: My client denies ... If the flamboyant figure of Madikizela Mandela loomed large in Mayfair, the dowdy, bespectacled Gaye Derby Lewis wife of Clive ... Fourteen years ago three Eastern Cape activists known as the Pebco three were killed at a deserted former police station near ... Torture. How many times have you heard stories of South Africans who said they were tortured? And did you believe them? Well ... Throughout the 1980s most of the state's aggression was unleashed on the black youth of the country. In 1986 26 000 people ... Gideon Niewoudt is now on trial in the Port Elizabeth Supreme Court for murder. // The Motherwell bombing case: the state ...

10:15 pm, June14 1986. A powerful car bomb explodes in front of the Why not Bar, a popular Durban nightspot. Three people die ... The full report on the amnesty hearings of Dirk Coetzee, Almond Nofemela and David Tshikalanga. The Special Report goes ... The elections of 1994 brought democracy and peace to our country, or perhaps I should say to the largest In the Truth Commission process there are victims and there are perpetrators of human right violations. Patrick Hlongwane was ... Thanks for joining our first Special Report on the Truth Commission. The Commission moves to Cape Town this week and we will ... The Truth Commission has been going for a full year now. Chairperson Archbishop Desmond Tutu reflect on the work of the Truth ...

This policeman will tell in chilling detail how he helped murder the husbands of three of the widows who gave evidence this week. If the South African state of the 1980s was an iron fisted Samson then its Goliath was the barehanded township youth. Many of ...