Media Summary: For years the people of Maokeng, the township outside Kroonstad in the Free State were terrorised by a brutal gang, called the ... A large number of women have testified before the The elections of 1994 brought democracy and peace to our country, or perhaps I should say to the largest
Trc Episode 12 Part 04 - Detailed Analysis & Overview
For years the people of Maokeng, the township outside Kroonstad in the Free State were terrorised by a brutal gang, called the ... A large number of women have testified before the The elections of 1994 brought democracy and peace to our country, or perhaps I should say to the largest There have been several potential crises and many moments where the credibility, even the very existence, of the Truth ... In the past few months we've tried to give you a personal glimpse into the lives of some of the Truth Commission's 17 ... A lot of the evidence I have listened to at the Truth Commission hearings were really heartbreaking. But when the testimony is ...
Next year the Truth Commission process will be dominated by amnesty hearings starting in late January. Slowly a picture is ... Throughout the 1980s most of the state's aggression was unleashed on the black youth of the country. In 1986 26 000 people ... If the flamboyant figure of Madikizela Mandela loomed large in Mayfair, the dowdy, bespectacled Gaye Derby Lewis wife of Clive ... These were all human rights violations stories we've listened to so far. That is what the Truth Commission has been concentrating ... Colonel Niewoudt's lawyer, Francois van der Merwe, faxed us his client's response to the allegation. He says: My client denies ... Let's turn our attention now to the Amnesty hearings in East London this past week. Young people play a large role in the ...
Fourteen years ago three Eastern Cape activists known as the Pebco three were killed at a deserted former police station near ... There is a danger that truth commissioners and the public could start suffering from torture fatigue. At every sitting of the ... Muziwakhe Ngwenya, better known as Thami Zulu or TZ, was one of the ANC's 1976 recruits. He rose rapidly through the ranks ... Queenstown in the Eastern Cape is more or less the same size as Kroonstad, but the stories the Truth Commission heard there ... There have been a great many politically motivated assassinations and murders in South Africa. The vast majority of these cases ...
