TRC Episode 25, Part 04

These were all human rights violations stories we've listened to so far. That is what the Truth Commission has been concentrating on in its first six months. The Truth Commission has now entered a new phase, a phase where the perpetrators rather than the victims will get prominence. If one looks back at six months of testimony by victims a few clear trends emerge. The first is that the brutalities of apartheid were not confined to cities and big townships. It reached into every village and location. De Aar, Toyandu, Brandfort, Colesburg, Mtubatuba, Aliwal-North, Indwe, Potchefstroom, New Castle. Another trend is the insistence that truth is a precondition to forgiveness. And very few victims asked for financial compensation. They asked for the remains of their relatives, for heroes' acres or walls of remembrance, for hearing aids, for medical assistance or education bursaries. In the 1960s and 70s there were a lot of deaths in police detention. In the 80s and early 90s activists were simply killed where they lived and worked. Another clear trend: the vast majority of reported murders, disappearances, and torture cases happened during the dark decade of the eighties, especially after the states of emergency. One figure dominated this period, the architect of total onslaught, Pieter Willem Botha. Botha also dominated much of the testimony at the Truth Commission this week, at the former Defence Force submission in Cape Town and at the amnesty hearings in Johannesburg. One of the repeated obsessions with the former rulers and their security operators is that the Truth Commission does not understand the contexts of their war against the liberation movements. In August former state president FW de Klerk and Freedom Front leader Constand Viljoen spent much time during their submissions to the Truth Commission explaining their war psychosis caused by the dangers of communist and black revolutionary onslaught.

[@ritamedina-molina8550]

Please leave this man in peace now..focus on the corrupt anc cadres.

[@sivungumbela4500]

😂😂😂it's not nice to see the truth is it

[@corazoncubano5372]

After living under the sickness of apartheid for so so long it going to take a few generations before S. Africa will be alright. I do believe that things will improve in the future but its going to take a while.

[@ritamedina-molina8550]

It will never happen they are too corrupt

[@marcellekravitz2411]

O fo dimwitt stop wearing dresses maybe ur brain will get fesh air amd u can give us a truthful smart comment

[@willemstrydom4074]

What a classic, Alex Boraine giving everyone hell just to write a book 20 years later on whats gone wrong in SA.

[@cheyenneasiafoxe292]

Botha was responsible!

[@charlesmorland750]

FORGIVENESS BUT NEVER FORGET - LEST WE FORGET!!!

[@ritamedina-molina8550]

Correct we will never one farm murder

[@andreasmikoleiczik6120]

I grew up in the British Virgin Islands which is in the Caribbean and the shit ass apartheid government mentality of S Africa made it all the way to the peaceful island I grew up on. One of my fathers friend who was a white guy had to flee S Africa because he was in love with a black lady and was on some wanted list by the government.He was a nice guy and also an interesting person to talk to. There was also a white family that made their way to the British Virgin Islands around 1976 and their daughter was very nasty to us people who were non white. From my understanding she was disciplined by her family. It took her 3 years to be civil with her other class mates. From my understanding her attitudes were learned from going to whatever all white school she attended ins South Africa. This was from 1977 to 1980.

[@plofkraak6536]

What a joke! The propaganda still lives on. Ignorance rules in the minds of people who are unwilling to investigate.

[@sivungumbela4500]

Yes white SA'ns are very racist..they have since taught their children not to show open racism but racism still burns very fiery in their hearts

[@jorgealvidrez9641]

9:04 Magnus Malan describing and defending the death squad CCB and explains how they killed ANC members from killing civilians and stopped functioning because of someone “stepping out of line.”

[@ritamedina-molina8550]

Just to listen to this makes me sick.

[@cheyenneasiafoxe292]

I find it impossible to believe that those SADF generals claim NO responsibility for the atrocity or deaths of so many ANC operatives! Sad! Gutless! and terrible!

[@sakabula2357]

Well the ANC never took responsibility...not then and definitely not now Ps:You really don't have a better picture of yourself to use as a prof pic

[@5bongz]

Via keepvid.com

[@josephortizgarcia]

...war against the liberation movement?! This is insane.

[@josephortizgarcia]

These are devils.

[@josephortizgarcia]

@josephortizgarcia ...and PLEASE don't call this position racist. I will laugh, I will!