Media Summary: Few other actions of the South African Defence Force caused as much bitterness in Namibia as the attack on Cassinga on May 4, ... By early 1987 brutality of a different kind faced the Bongulethu community. // Something that stood out as quite horrific from this ... 'They got my hands and my eye but they didn't get my most powerful weapon, my tongue.' This is the story of Michael Lapsley.
Trc Episode 06 Part 07 - Detailed Analysis & Overview
Few other actions of the South African Defence Force caused as much bitterness in Namibia as the attack on Cassinga on May 4, ... By early 1987 brutality of a different kind faced the Bongulethu community. // Something that stood out as quite horrific from this ... 'They got my hands and my eye but they didn't get my most powerful weapon, my tongue.' This is the story of Michael Lapsley. A few days before Christmas 1985, Jacqueline Quinn and her husband Leon Meyer were murdered by South African ... That's the end of tonight's Special Report. The Truth Commission will have sessions in Umtata and George this coming week. The unspoken found a faltering voice: necklacing, the shame of the comrades. Mbulelo Dulato was burned to death for breaking a ...
The death of my husband affected me so much that I wondered why he was killed; I wanted to know why he was killed and not ... We're coming to the end of our programme. But before we go: the poignant story of a mother, her missing son and the unexpected ... Former police commissioners maintain that unconventional methods against government opponents started in the mid eighties as ... May 1993, a year before the democratic elections in South Africa in Kimberley in the Northern Cape was the scene for an event ... General Leon Mellet was the public face of the ministry of law and order for many years. We met him on his farm, outside George ... The legal battles between the Truth Commission and police officers will continue this coming week. From the Special Report team, ...
Mrs Gonile, Cynthia Ngebwa, Irene Mxinwa and Eunice Miya, four of the mothers of seven young men who were shot dead in ... It turned out to be a very appropriate name, Mbokodo, the stone that crushes. The name of the ANC's security department while ... There have been a great many politically motivated assassinations and murders in South Africa. The vast majority of these cases ...