Media Summary: There have been several potential crises and many moments where the credibility, even the very existence, of the Truth ... On the 15th of April 1996 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission took its seat for the first time in the East London City Hall. Fourteen years ago three Eastern Cape activists known as the Pebco three were killed at a deserted former police station near ...
Trc Episode 87 Part 04 - Detailed Analysis & Overview
There have been several potential crises and many moments where the credibility, even the very existence, of the Truth ... On the 15th of April 1996 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission took its seat for the first time in the East London City Hall. Fourteen years ago three Eastern Cape activists known as the Pebco three were killed at a deserted former police station near ... Next year the Truth Commission process will be dominated by amnesty hearings starting in late January. Slowly a picture is ... Colonel Niewoudt's lawyer, Francois van der Merwe, faxed us his client's response to the allegation. He says: My client denies ... A lot of the evidence I have listened to at the Truth Commission hearings were really heartbreaking. But when the testimony is ...
With the coming of democracy many of the wrongs in South Africa's past are being corrected. But is a new morality being ... Traitor to some, hero to most; Bram Fischer was one of the first Afrikaners who turned his back on Afrikaner nationalism and joined ... If the flamboyant figure of Madikizela Mandela loomed large in Mayfair, the dowdy, bespectacled Gaye Derby Lewis wife of Clive ... Without the complicity of the judicial system apartheid couldn't have worked. The state needed the courts to apply apartheid laws ... The thought of Mamasela undergoing plastic surgery to change his facial features made us wonder what he could have looked ... The Truth Commission has been going for a full year now. Chairperson Archbishop Desmond Tutu reflect on the work of the Truth ...
When the Ciskei Transport Corporation hiked fares by 11% in July 1983 the community of Mdantsane launched a boycott and ... In the Truth Commission process there are victims and there are perpetrators of human right violations. Patrick Hlongwane was ... On March 11 1986, 80 school children were shot in the back with buck shot outside the Kabukweni magistrate's court in the former ... Certainly not a testimony to the efficiency of our security forces and our judicial system. That's the end of tonight's Special Report. Some apartheid practices did untold damage to generations of South Africans. Practices such as the pass laws and the hostel ...
