SAPA NEWS REPORTS - 1996
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December 30, 1996
December 23, 1996
December 17, 1996
December 16, 1996
December 15, 1996
December 14, 1996
December 13, 1996
- Change in amnesty date would be signal to rightwingers: Boraine
- Vlok only ex-minister seeking amnesty: NP
- Boraine meets Mandela on amnesty
- Amnesty cut-off date extended
- CP welcomes amnesty extention
- Fivaz welcomes new amnesty cut-off date
- New cut-off date opens amnesty doors for pre-election bombers
- ANC welcomes amnesty extension
- ANC hands in amnesty applications
- Amnesty extension welcomed
- NP sticks to view over amnesty for security forces
December 12, 1996
December 11, 1996
- SAPOHR welcomes Mitchell's release, victims' families bitter
- Brian Mitchell issues first statement since release
- APLA meets Tutu on amnesty
- Botswana considers allowing in SA Truth Commission
- PAC condemns Mitchell's release
- Mitchell says his release is the best Christmas present ever
- APLA high command to seek amnesty
- More than 3500 amnesty applications received
- Policeman's case postponed because he wants to apply for amnesty
- Amnesty applications stream in
- Amnesty will cause heartbreak: Tutu
- CP "9612/shocked" at refusal of amnesty for two rightwingers
December 10, 1996
- Mandela calls meeting on amnesty extension
- APLA to meet Tutu on amnesty
- Mitchell gets amnesty
- TRC hearing leads to murder charge
- Mitchell could be released as early as Wednesday: Lawyer
- Ex-SADF members should ignore Malan's advice: DP
- ANC in KwaZulu-Natal accepts TRC decision on Mitchell
- Brian Mitchell released after receiving amnesty
December 9, 1996
December 8, 1996
- MK Cadres amnesty applications confirmed
- Malan's advice to soldiers `dangerously misleading': Tutu
- Fivaz urges police amnesty applications before cut-off date
December 6, 1996
December 5, 1996
- Mystery still surround fateful ambush, Truth body hears
- KwaNdebele police chief sacked for opposing independence
- SA police violated rights in KwaNdebele, says ex-commissioner
December 4, 1996
- Botswana's ex-police chief denies past links to apartheid police
- Truth Commissioner apologises to Sapa
December 3, 1996
- DP applauds boost TVL AG's investigative team
- Tutu to probe claims of commissioners' bias against Gqozo
- Mamasela tells TRC of human rights violations
- Father killed after complaining about children's harassment
- Man tells Truth body his parents were necklaced by Comrades
- Truth body hears of deaths in dispersal of mass meeting
December 2, 1996
- Mxenge murder trial postponed until April next year
- Mbokodo leader recalls how he escaped death by burning
- Team probing apartheid-era killings almost doubled: Fivaz
- Moutse conflict not tribal, chief says
- Roelf Meyer tells TRC about NP's homelands policy
December 1, 1996
November 29, 1996
- ANC calls on members to seek amnesty
- Fivaz to meet black police members scared of white reprisal
- Truth body cannot cope with flood of amnesty applications
November 28, 1996
- Vlakplaas involved in Guguletu 7 ambush, TRC told
- Taxi murder bodies burnt beyond recognition, TRC told
- KwaZulu-Natal police to be briefed on TRC amnesty application
- Police were told to arrest Guguletu Seven, Truth body told
- Guguletu ambush a Vlakplaas operation, Truth Commission told
- Policeman tells TRC how he shot grenade attacker
- Mokhehle wants Truth Commission's constitution before its hearings
November 27, 1996
- Questions still surround Guguletu shootings, Truth body hears
- Tutu still battles to restrain tears
- Police colluded with squatter camp attackers - residents
- Police tortured father over "terrorist" sons, TRC told
- Truth body hears how police executed man in public
- Tutu says media should make submission to Truth body
- Policeman to tell "everything" about Guguletu ambush
- TRC subpoenas 4 policemen and former KwaNdebele Chief Minister
- Toasters gang was the terror of Tembisa: Truth Commission told
- Police executed guerillas, falsified evidence, Truth body told
- Guguletu hearing halted after woman throws shoe
November 26, 1996
- Doctors in human rights violations should seek amnesty: MASA
- Residents call for peace and reconciliation day
- Tutu to meet Gqozo's legal counsel to discuss complaints
- Tembisa youth killed for disobeying order to stay indoors
- Police attacked praying protesters, Truth body told
- TRC denies Ntombela summoned to appear
November 25, 1996
- Literacy delegates hand apartheid education submission to TRC
- Truth Commission to hear testimony on 1985 Pollsmoor march
- Vlok asked to meet Truth Commission
- Tutu tells truth body staff not to make remarks showing bias
- Ntsu Mokhehle former member of Vlakplaas, says Mamasela
- Muslim leader weeps in testimony to Truth body
November 23, 1996
November 22, 1996
- TRC to hear stories of havoc, terror by Tembisa "toasters"
- Mandela says it's a pity PW Botha won't testify before TRC
November 21, 1996
- Tutu arrives in George for PW talks
- Tempers flare at KwaZulu-Natal Truth hearing
- Police submit evidence contradicting previous TRC submissions
- Tutu talks to Botha, says it was amicable
- PW denies ordering Khotso House bombing
- Buthelezi says TRC is not the vehicle to foster peace
- PW willing to help TRC but won't apply for amnesty
- Police investigator tells of security branch death threats
November 20, 1996
- Ntombela to testify before TRC
- Pietermaritzburg Truth hearing adjourned
- Ntombela will not testify before TRC
- TRC ruined our careers, say top Cape Town cops
- Former policeman testifies how he helped Inkatha
- TRC hearing in PMB adjourned for second time due to protesters
- Coetzee's amnesty application postponed
- Extradition order also issued for Stopforth
- Ntombela refuses to testify before TRC
November 19, 1996
- Gqozo to tell his story to Truth body
- Special constables to testify before TRC on war in Midlands
- Gqozo pleads for forgiveness for Bisho massacre
- Gqozo lashes out at Truth body after asking for forgiveness
- Veenendaal brings urgent application against extradition
- TRC told police backed Inkatha in Kwazulu-Natal violence
- SABC's Truth Commission special report honoured
- Inkatha's Ntombela again implicated in Midlands' Seven-day War
- Schoon appears before Truth Commission
- SADF did not have resources to stop Seven-day War in KwaZulu-Natal
- I undermined Gqozo, former Ciskei spy tells Truth body
- Veenendaal: urgent application in PTA supreme court on Tuesday
November 18, 1996
- Truth body criticises NP submissions on Bisho massacre
- Kwazulu-Natal's seven-day war claimed at least 80 lives
November 15, 1996
- TRC to hear evidence of Kwazulu-Natal 7-day war
- White prison officials "plotted to kill black colleagues"
November 14, 1996
- West Rand mine bomb survivor says it was a Mamasela trap
- TV producer, Sexwale may face charges over amnesty comments
- Truth Commission to take statements at King's Kraal
November 13, 1996
- Woman tells TRC she was jailed for lending a friend her car
- Griffiths Mxenge trial postponed until next year
- SA's biggest challenge "is rejection between blacks and whites"
- Supoenaeded policemen in West Cape not suspended
- TRC to investigate IFP bribery allegations
November 12, 1996
- Women beaten for laughing at bees on statue, TRC hears
- Man wants to know why policeman shot him in 1990
- IFP to challenge newspaper in court
- Truth body subpoenas top cops on "Guguletu Seven"
- Swanieville residents tell TRC of attack
- Prisoner claims he was wrongly sentenced
November 11, 1996
- Mourner sterile after 1980s torture, TRC told
- TRC proposals for compensating human rights victims
- Three family members killed in 1990, woman tells TRC
- DP lauds Tutu's defence of TRC legislation
- Legal aid board to pay Gqozo's Truth Commission legal costs
November 10, 1996
November 8, 1996
November 7, 1996
- Coetzee to implicate senior officers in student's murder
- Hain wants TRC to investigate bank theft "frame"
- Coezee tells how suspect was given truth serum
- Coetzee repeats story of gruesome murder in amnesty testimony
- NP welcomes TRC statements on even-handedness: FW
- ANC delegation to meet Tutu on amnesty
- Special TRC meeting to discuss approach to P W Botha
November 6, 1996
- Coetzee to be cross-examined on Mxenge murder
- Family attacked by IFP living in fear
- Truth body witness recalls massacre of her family
- Wife seeks truth about murder of ANC doctor
- Trade unionist says state killed relatives
- Contradictions in Nofemela's testimony at amnesty hearing
- Boy refused to join IFP patrols, family killed
- Truth Commission spends R3 million on car allowances: Omar
- Deputy justice minister pledges support for TRC
November 5, 1996
- Death threats, tight security at Coetzee amnesty hearing
- Security force destabilisers still in posts, Truth body told
- MK man abducted from Swaziland, never seen again
- Truth body hears of family's persecution
- Coetzee's beliefs shaped by upbringing, Truth body told
- Sexwale reassures church about Commission hearings, amnesty
- Public applauds Truth body witness whose son killed IFP members
- Mxenge family opposes Coetzee's amnesty application
- Truth Commission legislation amended
- Two senior security police generals subpoenaed by TRC
- Three Ciskei elite unit members apply to TRC for amnesty
November 4, 1996
- Kasrils, Yengeni slam defence force generals
- RBM staff labelled ANC supporters, Truth body told
- Jailed murder squad leader implicated in another killing
- Mother of ambush victim asked police to kill her
- Tutu rebuke De Klerk and Kriel for crticising the TRC's objectivity
- Tutu to get German decoration
- Spear maker killed by ANC, Truth body told
- Dirk Coetzee amnesty application: TRC knows the grisly story
- Truth Commission to subpoena Mamasela
- Truth Commission faces budget cuts
- Warm response to request for meeting with PW Botha
- Former Ciskei leader Brig Oupa Gqozo to appear before TRC
November 3, 1996
November 2, 1996
November 1, 1996
- Security policemen's amnesty hearings postponed
- Mothers of slain activists say they cannot forgive
- ANC will resist Hani killers' amnesty application
October 31, 1996
- Ntuli was killed by security police hit squad - claim
- Homeland minister was killed afer SA Govt lost control - claim
- Hani's killers apply for amnesty
- German award for Tutu
- SADF helped kill 10 Mamelodi youths: police Brig
- Botha government regularly lied to Parliament: Slabbert
- Prospects for reconciliation looking grim: NP
- Walus must come clean in amnesty application - Sexwale
- Special forces blew up schoolboys, Truth Commission told
October 30, 1996
- Truth body to hear testimony by murdered "ANC cell" relatives
- Widow asks TRC to investigate her husband's hanging
- Relatives of murdered activists opposed to amnesty
- Police stopped Alex Traffic Dept helping riot victims
- Like Moses, ANC guerillas should not apply for amnesty: Phosa
- PW Botha knew about secret unit, Truth body told
- TRC told about army raid on Botswana
- Senior soldiers named in amnesty application for Ribeiro murders
- Tutu wants "the whole truth"
- Survivor watched brother and sister-in-law shot by SADF
- Injury under questioning was death sentence: security policeman
- Two life sentences, 212 years' imprisonment for De Kock
- SADF special force operatives behind Ribeiro murders: Cronje
- Senior soldiers named in amnesty application for Ribeiro murders
- Gen Coetzee implicated in Ribeiro murder coverup
- NG Church decides against submission to Truth Commission
- ANC, PAC welcomes De Kock's sentence
October 29, 1996
- Truth body to hear ex-policemen's testimony on 6 killings
- Amnesty committee refuses to subpoena dockets, state witnesses
- TRC hears how ANC man sang while cadre was murdered
- Omar agrees with Phosa's "general approach"
- Truth body told of police hit squad
- Alexandra's 1986 six-day war sparked by the police, TRC told
- Amnesty applicant admits to extra murders
- Mother blames police for "9610/six-day war" in Alexandra
- Le Roux appears before TRC
- Mother of slain activist dismisses policeman's testimony
- Ex-policeman admits giving order to kill ANC cell members
- TRC told police provoked "9610/six-day war" in Alexandra
- De Kock trial to conclude on Wednesday
- Activists were treated `humanely' before being blown up: witness
October 28, 1996
- Police tried to kill activist with coffee-tin bomb, TRC hears
- Alexandra was burning in 1976, TRC told
- Pensioner tells TRC how police tortured him
- Disappearance of PEBCO Three: amnesty hearings postponed
- Trade unionist comes face-to-face with man who tried to kill him
- TRC hears of plot to kill Catholic priest
- Blacks made to recite "we are kaffirs" by police, TRC told
- Father of slain Mthuli Shezi in tears at TRC hearing
- Truth body hears of bizarre plot to kill deputy minister
October 27, 1996
- Former Vlakplaas operatives reveal secret unit
- NP hails Tutu's standpoint to treat all parties equally
- Tutu not banned from Philippines: Embassy
- Truth body in race against time to hear amnesty applications
October 26, 1996
October 25, 1996
- Cabinet to discuss extending amnesty cut-off
- Tutu may address cabinet on amnesty date
- Former Vlakplaas operatives reveal secret unit
- Tutu can try and convince cabinet on amnesty extension: Mandela
- Women testify in camera before Truth Commission
- Motherwell bomber asks Truth body for postponement of testimony
- Family ostracised woman for inter-racial marriage
- First TRC hearing for women recounts 80s ordeals
- DP accuses ANC of trumpeting war-justification argument
October 24, 1996
- Truth Commission for doctors still premature: TRC
- Truth Commission to cost R173m: Omar
- Two german cops join Truth Commission investigative unit
- Turner daughters ask Truth Commission to find father's murderer
- German investigators join Truth Commission investigative unit
- CP repeats call for amnesty cut-off date extension
- NP not running away from responsibility: Meyer
- Turner considered dangerous and irritatingly clever
- MK co-founder tells Truth Commssion of attempts on his life
- Mandela meets Tutu
October 23, 1996
- Amnesty body to hear application by ex N Tvl security policeman
- White South Africans doubt TRC will promote reconciliation
- DP wants parliament to debate former police claims to TRC
- Amnesty applications exposing source of violence: ANC
- Families of slain Durban activists to testify before the TRC
- Lets first attempt to coax PW into co-operating with TRC: Boraine
- Boraine calls on Modise to apply for amnesty
- Truth body to subpoena Motherwell bomber
- TRC winds up Aliwal North hearings
- TRC hears about 1990 murder of MK cadres
- Adrian Vlok to be sued for Khotso house bombing accusation
- Counsel for de Kock begins argument in mitigation of sentence
October 22, 1996
- Ex-security policeman to tell amnesty committee about `PEBCO 3'
- Vlok and Van der Merwe to apply for amnesty - but not yet
- People shot while celebrating Mandela's release: TRC told
- Police targetted consumer boycotters: amnesty applicant
- Vlakplaas operative admits to PEBCO Three
- TRC increasingly biased and losing credibility: NP
- Truth body calls on ANC to hand over info on abuses
- TRC should also quiz MK and APLAa, not only SADF: NP
- Truth Commission hears of police indifference in Eastern Cape
- Gen Van der Merwe's Truth body testimony draws varied reaction
- Ex-security policemen tells how documents were destroyed
- Claims by former police commissioner should be taken: Boraine
- Mandela rejects extended amnesty cut-off date
- Fivaz says no to party-political interference in policing
- Many in ANC opposed to asking for amnesty, says Mandela
- SACC says Khotso house was never used as HQ for ANC
- Groot Krokodil's home flooded with faxes and water
- Chikane calls for personal apology from former NP leaders
- PW did not rebuke me for implicating him in bombing: Vd Merwe
October 21, 1996
- SANDF an example of reconciliation Truth probe hears
- No illegal destruction of military files: Meiring
- Start of amnesty application for five policemen delayed
- Former security policemen call on superiors to come clean
October 20, 1996
- Cabinet approved booby-trapped grenades plan: amnesty evidence
- Missing MI files to be explored at TRC military hearings
October 19, 1996
- Mandela agrees to meet TRC to discuss extension date
- TRC should canvas victims before shifting amnesty date: DP
October 18, 1996
- Call for amnesty cutoff date to be extended
- Truth body says apartheid court cases waste of money
- FF welcomes trc proposal to extend amnesty cut-off date
- Vlakplaas men to appear in supreme court next year
- Mandela firmly against amnesty extension
- Mandela opposed to extension of amnesty cut-off date
- Mitchell to give Truth Commission additional information
- Truth body gives political parties breathing space
- TRC lags behind in approving amnesty applications
October 17, 1996
- TRC subpoenas Coetzee to appear before inquiry
- Vlakplaas amnesty applicants to appear in court on Friday
October 16, 1996
- Soldier's mother to testify at Truth hearings
- SAPOHR opposed to amnesty for Trust Feed killer
- Mitchell amnesty application resumed in Pietermaritzburg
- Arrests, subpoenas won't stop cops' amnesty hearings - TRC
- Mother of slain soldier tells Truth body of emotional ordeal
- Emotional scenes at Trust Feeds amnesty hearing
- ANC activist apologises to murder victim's family
- Mitchell a product of indoctrination, amnesty committee hears
- Mitchell's application for amnesty accepted
- Tutu welcomes the NGK's Truth decision
October 15, 1996
- NGK to make public submission to Truth body in Paarl
- Truth body tells Paarl woman how son died in exile
- Mitchell's amnesty application adjourned due to technicality
- Police used snake to torture UDF leader, Truth body told
- Mitchell's amnesty application adjourned to Wednesday
- NG church confesses to apartheid sins
- TRC cannot be wished away: Magnus Malan
- TRC to hear cops' evidence despite prosecution possibility
October 14, 1996
- TRC to hear Brian Mitchell's amnesty application
- Paarl residents ask for anti-apartheid memorial
- Paarl man fell victim to Poqo reign of terror, Truth body told
- Witness at Truth hearing demands apology from Die Burger
- IFP seeks legal opinion on whether Tutu is guilty of contempt
- Swedish investigators ask Coetzee to help in Palme probe
- Police captain implicates colleague in slaying of student
- Freedom Front says TRC is not sticking to the letter of the law
October 13, 1996
October 12, 1996
- Policemen confess to 40 murders in bid for amnesty
- Five policemen confess to more than 40 murders in amnesty bid
- Tutu, Christopher sign R1,8 million USAid deal
October 11, 1996
- Malan verdict: Truth body better bet than courts says Tutu
- Tutu holds out hand of friendship to Afrikaners
October 10, 1996
- Mothers break down in Kroonstad Truth hearing
- Brian Mitchell amnesty hearing to be heard in Pietermaritzburg
October 9, 1996
- Truth body to hear how boycott-buster was burnt alive
- Truth body hears how boycott buster was burnt alive
- Police slammed detainees' penises in desk drawer: TRC told
- Mayor testifies to Truth body about pupil tortured in detention
- Afrikaner attitude to TRC under spotlight
- Tutu accuses some newspapers of hypocrisy
October 8, 1996
- Former ECape activist granted amnesty
- Truth body disputes police claims at inquest
- Phakati group responsible for Thabong violations: TRC hears
- Torture victim asks police to return his books
- Mothers testify to Truth body about the torture of their sons
- Intelligence committee backs TRC investigation
- TRC hears angry testimony in Northern Cape
- Mbeki ignored important issues in TRC testimony, says Holomisa
October 7, 1996
October 6, 1996
October 4, 1996
- NProv TRC hears of youth protest activities in former Venda
- TRC to hear objections to De Jonge's involvement in probe
- Ex-detainee considered suicide after being tortured, TRC told
- Truth body mum on subpoenas
- TRC hears of Venda police station bombing
- Former detainee challenges his tormentors to testify to TRC
October 3, 1996
- Two-day TRC session begins in Northern Province
- Former Venda military leader tortured detainees, TRC told
- Truth Commission to issue subpoenas
- Venda people never told of families who died in police custody
- Women-only TRC hearing to be held in Durban
- Retired Army General to testify before TRC
- De Klerk concerned about Truth Commission threat to subpoena Vlok
- Woman asks Truth body to probe father's death
October 2, 1996
- Police generals to respond to TRC's subpoena threat
- TRC, Gqozo's lawyers agree on Bisho massacre hearing date
- Roelf Meyer and Gqozo for Bisho massacre hearing
- Truth Commission to hear more than 30 cases in Free State
- Mother tells Truth Commission how pregnant daughter was killed
October 1, 1996
- Gqozo's lawyers deny TRC contact on hearing date
- Jailed South Africans willing to tell all about Zim blast
- Holomisa heading back to Parliament
- Former police generals to rewrite submission or face subpoena
- Holomisa out, ANC tells Parliament
September 30, 1996
- My expulsion is inappropriate: Holomisa
- Holomisa says his expulsion from ANC is confirmed
- Trust Feed massacre: TRC to hear amnesty application from Mitchell
- TRC will not hesitate to subpoena De Kock: Boraine
- TRC delegation to visit Rwanda to discuss reparations policy
- Truth Commission meets defence force delegation
- Truth Commission, SANDF agree on
- Holomisa out of ANC, threatens court action
- Alleged Palme assassin's wife says allegations "ludicrous"
- Parliamentary defence committee to discuss Gen Oelsshig
September 29, 1996
September 28, 1996
September 27, 1996
- Gqozo released from mental hospital
- Mandela, Mbeki assure TRC no decision yet to cut budget
- TRC meeting with Kasrils on liaison problems inconclusive
September 26, 1996
- Mother asks TRC to help her find missing son
- Defence force postpones submission to TRC
- Truth Commission at loggerheads with defence force chief
- Kasrils ignorant of plan to delay defence Truth submission: Boraine
- Bisho massacre findings to go to AG by Monday
- Mother of missing Ikageng man hospitalised
- Truth Commission to look at extending amnesty deadline
- Families of Kanana police attack victims demand explanation
- Gqozo will be asked to submit massacre statement: Police
- TRC agrees to postpone defence force submission
September 25, 1996
- Pig thrown in businessman's shop for his support to blacks
- Lentsela family want the remains of their disappeared son
- TRC hears how ANC turned its back against prominent member
- Ventersdorp squatters tell TRC of AWB attack on ET's orders
- Demand for R150 monthly pay led to loss of belongings: TRC told
- Truth Commissioner invited by British Medical Association
September 24, 1996
- Truth body to hear more evidence on EL massacre
- School bombed by people lacking vision for future: TRC told
- Injured private parts led to erectile problems: TRC told
- Truth body to summon company MDs to give evidence on massacre
- Makwassie youths tell of 1976 ordeals at hands of police
- Infant killed in police teargas attack, Truth body told
- TRC focus falls on suffering of people of Lebaleng, Makwassie
- Mob burnt school teacher to death, Truth body told
September 23, 1996
- Parents ask Truth Commission to help bury son
- SADF members shot township residents at random: Truth body told
- Khuma resident says police torture rendered him "unfit for life"
- Wife tells Truth Commission her husband was killed unnecessarily
- No bases raided, says TRC
- Hospital authorities helped police arrest wounded: TRC told
- Shooting victim asks for R50,000 payout from Truth Commission
- Death of youth caused more trouble in Jouberton, TRC told
September 22, 1996
- Truth Commission to probe Duncan Village massacre
- TRC investigations chief warns military to co-operate
- SAPS Generals' demands unreasonable: TRC investigations chief
September 20, 1996
- De Kock's trial divulged more than Truth Commission: Azapo
- Truth Commission warned of possible budget cuts
September 19, 1996
September 17, 1996
September 16, 1996
September 13, 1996
September 12, 1996
- AWB man admits racial hatred in murder of two guards
- Oelschig should resign from SANDF: Yengeni
- Rightwing family wanted to discredit blacks, Commission told
- Mother refuses to forgive her son's murderers
- De Kock threatened detainee, Truth Commission told
September 11, 1996
- Mother says she'll forgive her son's killers if they apologise
- Killer asks his victim's family for forgiveness
- Ballistics expert gives evidence at Truth hearing on Bisho massacre
- Amnesty applicant says he did nothing to warrant imprisonment
- Oelschig admits giving order to fire on ANC marchers at Bisho
- Murderer says his victim's death brought peace
September 10, 1996
- Mayor denies arming ANC Youth League
- Gqozo pulls out of Truth hearing
- Man says he killed gangster to protect ANC members
- Gqozo was told of coup attempt on day of Bisho massacre: TRC told
- Applicant's rep concedes his client lied to Truth Commission
- NP rejects Bisho allegations
- Police colluded with gangsters, TRC told
- Truth Commission hears of low-level war by rival groups
September 9, 1996
- Teacher testifies at Truth Commission hearing on Bisho massacre
- Gqozo, FW responsible for Bisho massacre, Ramaphosa tells TRC
- Amnesty Committee hears of vigilante harrassment in Khutsong
- Amnesty Committee denies rejecting Sekgopa and Jackson applications
- Gqozo to testify at TRC hearing on Bisho massacre
- Ncube says he killed gang leader for the sake of peace
- Amnesty Committee did not reject Sekgopa and Jackson applications
- Falstein's amnesty application confusing and contradictory
- I tried to get rid of Gqozo, Botha tells TRC hearing
- TRC hears evidence from Ramaphosa, Pik on Bisho massacre
- TRC asks amnesty applicant to tell the truth
September 8, 1996
September 7, 1996
- Parliament faces possible `painful' compensation decision: Omar
- No individual has power to fight ANC, Sexwale tells rally
September 6, 1996
September 5, 1996
- ANC planned to kill Buthelezi in secret operation, Truth body told
- Buthelezi apologises to Mandela for past hurts
- IFP portrayed as victim of ANC aggression in TRC submission
- No peace until ANC, IFP leaders reconcile: Buthelezi
- Transkei A-G report confirms Holomisa's claims were false: ANC
- We never sanctioned violence, IFP leaders tell TRC
September 4, 1996
- Truth Commission to hear of fierce IFP/ANC conflict in Newcastle
- Man whose genitals electrocuted had poor sex drive, TRC told
- Buthelezi mum on IFP's Truth submission
- Pik agrees to testify at Bisho massacre hearing
- Mother tells Truth Commission how dogs ate her husband's corpse
- Individuals, and not the ANC against me: Holomisa
September 3, 1996
- Landmine explosions feature prominently at Mpuma TRC
- ANC, AWB supporters to apply for amnesty at potch hearings
- Soldiers threatened ambushed youths with burial, TRC told
- Sister tells TRC how police kicked her dead brother's body
- Now Holomisa criticises Niehaus
September 2, 1996
- TRC hears allegations of torture by former police spokesman
- Children of policemen shown "terrorists": Commission told
- Tutu urges witnesses to testify before TRC
- Truth Commission audience jeers at witness
- Subpoenas against army and police generals suspended: Tutu
- Mpumalanga TRC: gory tales of security force activities unfold
August 31, 1996
August 30, 1996
- Holomisa seeks another postponement of ANC hearing
- Holomisa had no respect for the ANC: ANC judgment
- I'm not shocked about my expulsion, I will appeal: Holomisa
- Truth body told ANC tortured infiltrator who confessed
- Holding of TRC hearings in Nelspruit angers township residents
- Brother of activist killed by police alleges murder
- Truth Commission witness believes his life is in danger
- Gqozo being sought by North West police
- TRC delegation to meet former police commissioners
August 29, 1996
- Truth Commission plays down speculation on subpoenas
- Truth Commission could be faced with another legal challenge
- Volkswagen denies supporting faction
- Pik, Gqozo may testify at Bisho massacre hearing
- ANC disciplinary probe against Holomisa resume on Friday
- Truth Commission grants amnesty to two convicted murderers
August 28, 1996
- Settlement of court order against Truth Commission sought
- IFP to target ANC in submission to Truth Commission
- Fifteen slain during Mxenge memorial service: witness
- Truth Commission should consider all facts before it: NP
- De Kock trial calls into question NP submission to Truth probe: ANC
- Truth Commission has cost R26m
- Activist accused of being a sell-out, TRC told
- Third force blamed for violence between liberation movements
August 27, 1996
- I'll support Mbeki: Holomisa
- Several to be subpoenaed to testify before TRC
- Suggestions invited on parties' Truth hearings
- TRC extends special invitation to Mpumalanga students
- Holomisa still insists Zuma must recuse herself
- Truth Commission and AWB share Uitenhage town hall
- Mbeki accused of covering up APLA deaths
August 26, 1996
- Begin talks then work towards peace, Boraine tells Irish
- Landmine and forced removals evidence for Mpumalanga Truth hearings
- He will not be thrown out, Holomisa tells Durban students
August 25, 1996
August 23, 1996
- Retired policemen can appeal against judgment in favour of TRC
- Truth remains elusive in party hearings
- Renamo denies using chemical weapons
August 22, 1996
- ANC wanted to bomb PW Botha and Cabinet in 1981: Mbeki
- ANC executed at least 34 of its cadres in Angola: Mbeki
- Truth Commission should reopen Hani and Machel investigations: ANC
- Details of armed struggle and individual
- Apartheid judges and magistrates should account: ANC
- Never official ANC policy to target civilians: Mbeki
- Wimpy bars not targeted by ANC but by the State: Mbeki
- NP Government used chemical weapons and poison on neighbours: ANC
- ANC calls for Truth probe on apartheid destabilisation of neighbours
- Mbeki calls on FW de Klerk to come clean on covert operations
- Apartheid can't be equated with resistance against it: Mbeki
- ANC apologises for abuses in exile camps
- Mbeki tells Truth body of intelligence war waged against ANC
- Aparheid agents still in ANC ranks today: Mbeki
- ANC asks for commission's help in Tami Zulu case
- De Klerk should tell whole truth about apartheid crimes: Sexwale
- Reporter learns fate of brother at TRC hearing
- Parties avoiding accountability: DP
- Nothing new in ANC Truth hearing: NP
- Mbeki apologises for excesses in just war against apartheid
August 21, 1996
- FW apologises for apartheid but denies sanctioning assassinations
- FW avoids ANC protesters outside Truth hearing
- NP Govt would have arrested Goniwe killers but too little info
- Water jug puts dampener on NP submission to Truth body
- FW found pardoning criminals "abhorrent"
- TRC phase could partly be cause of crime crisis: Viljoen
- GNU keeps some apartheid-era covert ops under wraps: FW
- FW defends human rights track record
- ANC Women's League on fast
- De Klerk stands by apartheid architects
- Security force members will not be left out in cold: FW
August 20, 1996
- PAC objects to sharing same platform with human rights abusers
- PAC leader gives Truth Commission history lesson
- PAC claims responsibility for attacks on white civilians
- PAC asks Truth Commission to probe Sobukwe poisoning
- DP explains involvement in apartheid Parliament
- Media distorted PAC's policy of non-racialism: Makwetu
- Targeting white civilians was never official PAC policy: Makwetu
- DP calls for Truth probe into NSMS for possible third-force link
- ANC expected to claim moral high ground in Truth submission
- Friends of SA prisoners in Zim want to see them
August 19, 1996
- Politicians must come clean: Viljoen
- TRC must challenge party submissions: call
- Armed struggle prevented earlier peace settlement: Viljoen
- Viljoen censors submission to Truth Commission
- Truth Commission failing at reconciliation: Viljoen
- Viljoen avoids apology for apartheid era crimes
- Human rights abuse victims must be willing to forgive: ACDP
August 17, 1996
August 16, 1996
- DP to give Truth evidence
- DP wants to put Progs' record to TRC: Leon
- TRC to hold Coetzee amnesty application before criminal trial
- Truth body to meet privately with alleged perpetrators
- Truth Ccommission enters crucial week in probe into past abuses
August 14, 1996
- "Police" gunmen shot dead nine youths in Kwandebele: TRC told
- Kwandebele woman branded a witch after massacre, Commission told
- Buthelezi implicated in Truth hearings
- Roadside executions "politically motivated"
- Holomisa refuses to plead, calls for Asmal to recuse himself
- TRC to summon suspected perpetrators of human rights violations
- Mxenge suspects to appear in court
- Soldiers left bleeding youth without medical treatment
- Truth probe wraps up three-day South Coast hearings
- Holomisa inquiry postponed, Asmal quits
- PAC in Free State wishes Holomisa luck in disciplinary hearing
August 13, 1996
- TRC to wrap up Beaufort West hearings
- Kwamashu victims to tell TRC of attack on bus
- Air Force officer blinded in Pta bomb says he isn't bitter
- Operation Vula operative's wife to testify before Truth body
- Deputy Mayor recounts escape from police torturers
- Mother tells TRC "Boers" killed her son in cross-border raid
- Truth Commission of attack on town councillor's home
- IFP members recount 1992 massacre before TRC
- Victims of bus attack say it was not politically motivated
- ANC owes rugby-playing Holomisa an apology: Boerestaat party
- Woman tells TRC of husband's murder by Vlakplaas operatives
- TRC told of killing of Beaufort West community leader
- Bus attack victims' families oppose Amnesty applications
- Former policeman to testify about killing
- Policeman tells of roadside execution
August 12, 1996
- Truth Commission begins Karoo hearings
- Woman killed for refusing to fight whites, Commission told
- Durban commuter bus attack act of war: Boerevolk cell leader
- Truth Commission asked to help find remains of MK soldier
- Hitsquads played a role in South Coast violence: monitors
- Commission told of year-long detention ordeal
- Families to oppose bus attackers' Amnesty application
- Woman disfigured in bank siege testifies before TRC
- Man blinded on way home from nightclub: TRC told
- TRC told of distress the 1980 Silverton bank siege had caused
- Right-wingers tell TRC bus attack was act of war
- Man shot for refusing to join IFP night camp, TRC told
- Woman tells of torture by police
- Mothers urge TRC to find truth about their sons' death in exile
- Karoo TRC hearings dominated by accounts of police brutality
- AZAPO attacks ANC over Kerzner donation
- Police laughed when mother reported son's murder, TRC told
August 11, 1996
August 10, 1996
August 9, 1996
August 8, 1996
- TRC hearings to move to Pretoria next week
- Mother recalls shooting of her son outside Sebokeng tavern
- Sebokeng Truth witness victimised
- Chris Hani night vigil victims tell their tale
- IFP members to testify at South Coast TRC hearings
- Truth staff allegedly shout AWB slogans
- Truth probe will have to uncover third force activity: Randera
- Truth probe wraps up four day Vaal hearing amid victamisation
- Truth body wins Contempt of Court case
August 7, 1996
- Sebokeng councillors testify at Truth hearing
- Mother asks TRC to help rebury her son
- Police planted gun on dead ANC member, TRC told
- Daughter shot for no reason, TRC told
- Journalist tells TRC of harrowing experiences
- Boipatong massacre recalled
- Boipatong massacre recalled at TRC hearing
- 2-yr-old killed in Boipatong attack, TRC hears
- Stabbing victim a quadruplegic after Boipatong attack
- TRC hears of violations suffered by women
- Victims relive Boipatong massacre and implicate police
August 6, 1996
- TRC told of third-force activity in Vaal Triangle
- I survived being shot seven times, witness tells TRC
- Khayelitsha family murdered in attack on home, TRC told
- 'Vaal Monster' not the killer, victim's brother tells TRC
- Vaal Monster focus of Truth body hearing in Sebokeng
- Former MK guerilla admits betraying comrade to police
- Women to testify on abuse before TRC
August 5, 1996
- TRC focus on victims of Sharpeville massacre
- Truth body hears how MK cadre was slain by police
- Blinded man forgives soldier who shot him, TRC hears
- TRC hears how police shot teenaged bystander
- TRC hears of 'non-political' Sharpeville victims
- Judges should appear before the Truth Commission: Tutu
- Truth body hears anguished testimony of brain-damaged MK guerilla
- Reports of Holomisa's expulsion from the ANC denied
August 3, 1996
August 2, 1996
- Phosa announces provincial Truth committee
- Too much money being spent on Truth Commission: NP
- NP wants public protector to probe ANC
August 1, 1996
- Sacked Holomisa accuses Mbeki of collusion
- Mokaba defends Mandela's prerogative in cabinet choices
- Holomisa has signed his own death knell in the ANC: Tshwete
July 31, 1996
- Holomisa to face three disciplinary charges on August 14
- Holomisa calls for Truth legislation to be revised
- Truth Commission to meet ANC over Holomisa
- Boipatong massacre to be focus of Truth hearings next week
- Truth Commission hears how gang members were burnt to death
- Truth hearings postponed
July 30, 1996
- Proof that truth hurts - once a hero, now vilified as a traitor
- Truth Commission plans women's hearing
- Mandela bemoans public debate on Holomisa's dismissal
- Necklacing was in line with aims of ANC, Amnesty body told
- ANC concerned by Boraine's remarks on Holomisa axing
July 29, 1996
- Sebe's son applies for amnesty from Truth Commission
- Opponent of Lennox Sebe jailed for 108 days, Truth body told
- Former Ciskei ruler's son was most feared in Ciskei, TRC told
- Amnesty application by son of former Ciskei President in balance
July 28, 1996
July 26, 1996
- Legal system tarnished by human rights abuses, Truth body told
- Holomisa sacked by Mandela
- MK man's parents say he was poisoned at ANC base
- PAC dismayed over Holomisa sacking
- I did my job, my dismissal was politically motivated: Holomisa
- My axing was political and not because of incompetency: Holomisa
July 25, 1996
- Concourt dismisses AZAPO application to halt amnesty
- TRC told security police tried to extract confession
- Concourt rules in favour of Truth Commission, amnesty
- Former MK commander seeks justice from Truth Commission
- TRC blames itself for low Soweto attendance
- Truth body welcomes Concourt ruling on amnesty
- Amnesty hearing for Sebe's son
- NGK, Truth Commission meet
- Parents appeal to Winnie to disclose truth about their sons
- ANC welcomes Concourt decision on granting of amnesty
- Commission hears of Trust Feed massacre, police involvement
July 24, 1996
- ANC senator to appeal for release of gangsters' murderers
- Truth body told woman's son was burned to death
- Those responsible for torture should be exposed, TRC told
- Youth killed 'oppressor' in racial attack, TRC told
- First attempts at reconciliation fails
- ANC leader admits 1992 perjury about gang leader's murder
- ANC senator admits to lying to court about gang leader's murder
- Roodepoort Mayor's son killed in brutal shooting
- Inkatha and police attacked strikers, Truth Commission told
- Former East London Mayor denied brutality claim: Truth Commission
July 23, 1996
- Truth body to quiz former SDU Commander
- Daughter appeals to witnesses to Edelstein killing
- Victim of police shooting asks Truth body for wheelchair
- Self-defence unit killed gang members, Truth body told
- Overview of human rights abuses at KwaNatal TRC hearing
- Suffering in small places marginalised by media, TRC told
- Truth body hears of family's search for body of MK cadre
- Gang member shot in self-defence, ANCYL member tells Truth body
- Truth body wraps up June 16 hearings in Soweto
- Policemen involved in June 16 shootings have to explain: Morobe
- Truth body grills amnesty applicants on discrepancies
- TRC hears more testimony from Queenstown blast survivor
- TRC will try to trace roots of all stories heard: Finca
- Judge, IFP members and police named in TRC hearing
July 22, 1996
- Truth Commission amnesty hearings at Kroonstad delayed
- Kroonstad amnesty hearings to be postponed
- Shooting of Hector Petersen recalled at Truth hearing
- Truth body told Bantu education turned children to violence
- 1976 Soweto uprising recalled in testimony to Truth Commission
- Amnesty hearings due to get underway after 3-hour delay
- NP has no remorse for 1976 uprising, Truth body hears
- Truth body asked to probe secret burials at Soweto cemetery
- Investigation into alleged Tutu assassination attempt completed
- IFP urges restraint at Pietermaritzburg TRC sitting
- Trauma centres needed for rights abuse victims, says editor
- Truth Commission to hear tales of Midlands horrors
- TRC hears of Queenstown massacre at church hall meeting
- Newspaper accused of misinforming public during 1980s
- Mpumalanga security MEC to testify before TRC
July 21, 1996
July 19, 1996
- Truth Commission focuses on youth resistance to Apartheid
- Last three Mxenge murder suspects appear in Pretoria Court
- Police torture rendered me sterile, says activist
- Man left for dead after police assault in prison, Commission told
- TRC concerned because too few whites showed up in NProv
- Security force brutality revealed at Truth hearing
July 18, 1996
- TRC to hear evidence of rural repression in Pietersburg
- Grandmother relates murder of baby to Truth Commission
- Policeman claims he was abused by AZANLA member
- Students tells Amnesty Committee of Nazi-type movement
- PAC man says he was tortured in prison
- Woman tells Truth Commission how soldiers watched her give birth
- Daughter of murdered woman opposes amnesty for killer
July 17, 1996
- Firm bows to workers' demand on Truth Commission
- Mokaba's family ostracised, detained: Truth Commission told
- Rightwinger tells Truth Commission committee of murders
- Truth body to seek meeting with Harms, McNally
- Fears of communists prompted brutal murders: rightwinger
- Activist escaped letter bomb, but died in police cell
- Mother asks Commission to find her son's bones
- Bitter cold, rain as TRC begins hearing at Pietersburg
- Truth N/L violations
- Truth body to probe murder of Kroonstad gang leader
July 16, 1996
- Security guards laugh while torturing PAC member
- Murder of suspected PAC member was on NP's behalf, hearing told
July 15, 1996
- Former policeman tells how suspected APLA member was tortured
- Mokaba to appear before Truth probe
- Commission traces mystery Bloemfontein gunman
- Fidelity Guards denies involvement with security police
- Former policemen describe torture and murder of suspected PAC member
July 14, 1996
July 12, 1996
- Mamasela surprised he is not being prosecuted for Mxenge murder
- Two amnesty applications to be heard in Pretoria
July 11, 1996
- Vlakplaas policeman, four others to be arrested for Mxenge murder
- Truth and Reconciliation Act immunised
July 10, 1996
- TRC hears of coup to overthrow Bop Government
- Maharaj knew of murder plot against Mandela: retired General
- ANC accuses former Generals of disinformation
- TRC hears of nephew shot in the street by police
- Truth Commission hearing ends in Mmabatho
- Party submissions to TRC postponed with Mandela overseas
- Woman detained after disrupting Truth probe press conference
- ANC struggle against apartheid targeted civilians: document
- Party submissions to TRC postponed with Mandela overseas
- ANC under attack for anti-apartheid atrocities
- Tutu defends Truth Commission
- Workers strike over guard accused of torture during 80s
July 9, 1996
- Vryburg mayor tells Truth Commission of assault, torture
- New light shed on death of Mabalane
- TRC hears of man who became mentally disturbed after assaults
- North Prov churches to hold pre-Truth Commission prayers
- Truth Commission hears testimony from 10 witnesses
July 8, 1996
July 7, 1996
July 5, 1996
- SA Salvation Army committed to reconciliation process
- Two government departments to make submissions to Truth Commission
- Claims of armed man in TRC hearings cannot be dismissed: Tutu
- Truth hearings move to Mmabatho next week
- Amnesty committee to hear six prisoners' applications
July 4, 1996
- Mamasela shot girl, 7, Truth body told
- DP stands by decision not to make submission to TRC
- Truth body hears testimony on gang's reign of terror
- Mamasela reveals new information on PEBCO Three murders
July 3, 1996
- Truth body set to resume hearings in Bloemfontein
- Police killed crippled youth, Truth body told
- Alleged gang leader testifies before the Truth Commission
- ANC officials abducted dissident outside UN offices, TRC told
- Bid to kill Tutu at Truth hearing reported
- Mystery gunman poses security threat to Tutu
- Old man arrested for Biko photo, Truth body told
July 2, 1996
- Truth body hears of death of ANC guerilla in border skirmish
- Tutu pays reconciliatory visit to Boer War memorial
- Boraine hits out at poor attendance by whites at Truth hearings
- Truth Commission officials to meet Mamasela this week
- Truth body faces difficult task in tracing missing activists
July 1, 1996
- Tutu elected Chairman of Olympic Bid Convocation
- Truth body to hear more tales of abuses at Free State hearing
June 27, 1996
- NP not distancing itself from former security force members: FW
- Truth Commission to hear 29 cases in Bloemfontein
- Surprise witness at Truth Commission hearings
- Zim reluctant to let bombers testify at Truth Commission
- ANC hopes former security force members will testify at TRC
- Truth Commission's life could be extended, says Mandela
- Roelf Meyer says he will gladly aid Truth Commission
- Purported AZAPO leader says he was victim of smear campaign
June 26, 1996
- Supreme Court overturns TRC order for du Preez, van Rensburg
- Dirk Coetzee to testify to TRC later in year
- Former security policemen implicated in activist's death
- Witness tells of torture on Robben Island
- Defiance campaign led to torture of activists, Truth body told
- Doctor denies he told police to cover up torture of detainee
- TRC hears of UDF-AZAPO clashes in Eastern Cape
June 25, 1996
- Mandela welcomes Generals' letter to Truth Commission
- Gen van der Merwe denies amnesty application
- ANC welcomes former security force Generals' approach
- Attorney for police members, ex-members approached TRC: Tutu
- Truth body hears how vigilantes conducted reign of terror
- Bomber-accused Gunn pursues Vlok
- Police members accept responsibility for apartheid-era crimes
- Businesswoman implicated at Truth Commission hearings
- Truth Commission prepares for South Coast hearings
- Perpetrators named at TRC need not be warned, court rules
June 24, 1996
- Police shooting victim told to pay up
- Truth body to quiz Western Cape A-G's office
- Women tells Truth body of sexual abuse
- Doctor tried to cover up evidence of torture
- Apartheid Generals accept responsibility for Apartheid crimes
- Generals approach Truth Commission
June 23, 1996
- Tutu receives Meritorious Service medal
- Human rights abuses in SA's wine regions under Truth spotlight
June 21, 1996
- Court reserves ruling on TRC case
- DP leader Leon casts doubts on the Truth Commission
- DP leader: is Truth Commission getting the whole truth?
June 20, 1996
- Truth body to hear claims of victimisation
- Truth body hears of repression under Matanzima Govt
- Injured woman asks Truth body for R100000
- Matanzima ordered release of cop charged with murder
- Government faces tough questioning from truth body
June 19, 1996
- Truth body to hear of plot to overthrow Holomisa
- Truth Commission to resume Southern Cape hearings
- TRC hears allegations of police misconduct
- Truth Commission told of repeated torture at hands of police
- Truth body hears startling new claims on Transkei coup attempt
- TRC told of police torturing detainees in Southern Cape
- Torturers still in senior posts in SAPS, says ANC whip
- ANC member hacked to death by party youths, TRC hears
- Clerk jailed for allegedly insulting Matanzima, Truth body told
June 18, 1996
- ANC stalwart tells of three decades of torture, detention
- MK commander alleges sexual abuse in ANC exile camps
- Truth body hears of student leader's death
- Truth Commission's human rights violations hearings in Mmbatho
- Truth body challenged over handling of testimony
- Oudtshoorn Mayor testifies about torture
- Boy, 12, watched father being necklaced, TRC told
- TRC told of police violence in Bongolethu township
- Information given to TRC in good faith is privileged: Tutu
- Three children killed - TRC hears more frightening stories
June 17, 1996
- Truth Commission begins Southern Cape hearings
- Widow of former Transkei officer to testify before Truth Commission
- IFP Youth rejects call for Khoza to appear before Truth Commission
June 14, 1996
- ANC will not vet testimony of ordinary members before Truth probe
- Date set for handover of party submissions to Truth body
- AG's version of Bop Consulate bomb trial incorrect: Potgieter
- Constitution's anti-defection clause is "medieval": NP
- I gave Mandela copy of my Truth testimony: Holomisa
June 13, 1996
- Holomisa is within legal rights to object to hearing
- Holomisa personally hands formal objection to Asmal
- Asmal's statements threaten reconciliation, says NP
- Church body says it is concerned about ANC's action against Holomisa
- Holomisa warned to watch his back
- AG rejects ANC guerilla's confession to Truth body
- ANC members free to come to Truth body: Tutu
- Truth body to meet political parties
- Companies land lucrative Truth Commission contracts
- Asmal directive `shocking': NP
- Neither Sigcau or Holomisa were backed by former government: de Klerk
- Truth body looks at reburying apartheid's victims
- Nobody to be told by ANC what to tell Truth Commission: Omar
- Northern province AG labels ANC guerilla "liar"
June 12, 1996
- Judge recuses himself from TRC hearing
- Shortage of judges delays TRC application after recusal
- Holomisa probe won't stop ANC members testifying at Truth probe
- Holomisa to object formally on Thursday to ANC disciplinary hearing
June 11, 1996
- Man who lost eye in police attack testifies before Truth body
- Tshwete, Nzo implicated in alleged coverup in testimony at Truth hearing
- Investigate Transkei bribe prosecution delays: DP
- Government sending wrong signals about corruption: Mnisi
- Holomisa to hear charges on Wednesday
- ANC guerilla confesses to bombing Bop Consulate
- Truth Commissioners react to Holomisa controversy
- NIA employs alleged torturer of MK guerilla
June 10, 1996
- Tutu renews call for perpetrators to appear before Truth body
- De Klerk morally, politically responsible for letterbomb: priest
- Coetzee to testify before Truth body
- Dirk Coetzee to give evidence to Truth Commission
- Doubt cast on police claims at Truth hearing
- Truth body to hear testimony on grenade blast
- FW politically responsible for bombing, Truth body told
- Northern Cape Town scene of ANC/IFP conflict
June 9, 1996
- Truth body to probe fate of missing MI files
- ANC says its members are free to seek amnesty as individuals
- Activist who lost hands in letter bomb testifies at TRC
June 7, 1996
June 6, 1996
- Media reports submitted in court against Truth Commission
- Truth body to subpoena Nieuwoudt, Mamasela
- Modise to apply for amnesty from Truth Ccommission
June 5, 1996
June 4, 1996
- Truth body plans Soweto public meeting
- End IFP boycott of Truth body, Tutu tells Buthelezi
- Former policeman applies for court order against Truth body
- Truth body receives 600 amnesty applications
- Mandela and Mbeki must choose between Sigcau and Holomisa: NP
June 3, 1996
May 31, 1996
May 30, 1996
- Truth Commissioners to brief Mangaung residents on Commission
- Activist families' application before constitutional court
- Activist families' application before constitutional court (lead)
- State payment of employees' legal costs under review
- Man admits lying to the Truth Commission
- No evidence sigcau involved in corrupt practice: Mbeki
May 29, 1996
May 27, 1996
- Human rights violations hearings schedule
- Mbeki to continue search for missing love-child
- Truth Commission must establish rule of law: Omar
- Biko's widow and Mxenge's brother attend PAC meeting
- No extending of amnesty cut-off date: Omar
May 24, 1996
- Contempt of Court procedures launched against TRC
- Witness accused of "adapating" evidence in Motherwell case
- Truth Commission's disregard of court order cannot be overlooked
- FF leader conditionally agrees to testify to Truth body
- Viljoen might testify before Truth Commission
- Mbeki statement on Holomisa - TRC and Sigcawu
- Truth body to clarify the rights of alleged perpetrators
- Suspend Sigcau pending an investigation into bribery allegations: DP
- Sigcau was cleared of impropriety by a judge: Mbeki
May 23, 1996
- Mtimkulu, Weakley families to testify before Commission
- Mtimkulu weeps as her evidence to Truth body is again deferred
- Kirkwood woman asks Truth Commission for protection
- School children invade Truth Commission venue
- Mandela to be briefed about renewed tensions within his executive
May 22, 1996
- Ex-officers seek fines or jail for Truth Commiussion chiefs
- De Klerk should account to Truth body, says Holomisa
- SA Council of Churches sends message to Truth Commission
- Truth body should ask for state security files, says Holomisa
- Holomisa asks truth body to probe military signal on Bisho massacre
- Holomisa asks truth body to compensate soldiers' families
- Contempt of Court charges withdrawn against Truth body
- Commission to receive documents on human rights violations
May 21, 1996
- Motherwell car bomb suspect has right to defence: counsel
- Fear of arrest motivated murder, Truth body told
- Tutu encouraged by TRC's independence
- Spirit of reconciliation marks amnesty hearing
- Tutu warns crowd several times; threatens to vacate hall
- State behind AZAPO-UDF conflict in Uitenhage: Badela
- Policeman's wife tells how he was necklaced in front of her
- Truth body hears amnesty plea for two convicted murderers
- Truth body faces court action from security policeman
May 20, 1996
- Tight security for amnesty hearings in North West
- Convicted murderers will not be retried by Truth Commission
- Amnesty judge rebukes attorney
- Families of PEBCO Three visit torture, murder site
- Past police action must be properly understood, says Mufamadi
- Tribal leader murdered after refusing to hand over office keys
- Political parties asked to submit policy explanations to TRC
May 17, 1996
May 16, 1996
- Tutu threatens dismissal over Truth Commission leaks
- Action against McBride astonishing: Truth Commission
- A-G should wait for full report before pursuing McBride: ANC
- Action against McBride astonishing: Truth Commission
- Truth Commission moves on aid for victims
May 15, 1996
- Truth Commissioners meet Mandela
- Truth programme for Cape
- De Kock denies offer of reduced term
- Truth Commission appoints Communications Director
- Truth Commission may have closed hearings for women
- "Terrible revenge" if McBride harmed warns ex-MK man
May 14, 1996
May 13, 1996
May 11, 1996
May 10, 1996
- 14 witnesses to testify
- Kwazulu police involved in massacre, Truth body told
- Nzo beat inmate at ANC camp, Truth body told
- Hitsquad allegations surface at Truth hearing
- Mother of hanged ANC bomber wants death certificate
- Truth hearing a "window" into KwaNatal violence, says Tutu
- Truth Commission wraps up first set of hearings
- Truth Commission witnesses placed under protection programme
- Truth body ends first round of hearings
May 9, 1996
- Truth body hears of police brutality
- Buthelezi denies he's unwilling to meet Truth Commission
- Truth body hears of police brutality
- Bid to prevent amensty fails
- Truth body hears of torture techniques
- Judiciary under fire at truth hearing
- Truth body told of Askari's disappearance
- Truth body might aid meeting of torturers and victims
May 8, 1996
- Court reserves judgement in TRC case
- Jacki Quin's family appears before Truth Commission
- Truth body hears testimony on murder of Stompie Seipei
- Magoo's bar blast remembered at Truth body's Durban hearing
- Truth body hears of Kwamashu family massacre
- Truth Commission hears of murder squad conspiracy
- Truth Commission cannot promote reconciliation: IFP
- Truth body asked to probe death of dentist in detention
- UDF, IFP violence under spotlight at Truth body hearing
- ANC in Vosloorus urges support for Truth Commission hearings
- Truth body to hear testimony on murder of Stompie Seipei
May 7, 1996
- Survivors of Magoo's bar bomb blast due to testify on Tuesday
- Truth Commission urges Afrikaners to repent, confess
- Women tell Truth Commission of missing ANC exiles
- Free State Truth hearings in Durban upset Free State ANC
- Truth body told of trade unionist's brutal murder
- Kwazulu police under spotlight at Durban Truth hearings
- McBride should be removed from public office, Truth body told
May 6, 1996
- Tutu calls for IFP to end boycott of Truth Commission
- Fears violence will disrupt Truth body's Kwazulu-Natal hearings
- Threat of civil claims inhibit rights violators, court told
May 4, 1996
May 3, 1996
- Truth Body hears of Swaziland killings
- Solomon Mahlangu's mother appears before Truth body
- Truth body plans special hearing for alleged perpetrators
- Subpoena Judge Harms, Malan and Vlok, Truth Commission told
- Amnesty committee to hold its first hearings on May 20
- Malan knew of plot to assassinate Webster, Truth body told
- IFP to submit dossier on "ANC war" to Truth Commission
- Namibians ask Tutu to help form their own Truth Commission
May 2, 1996
- Truth body advises witnesses not to name alleged perpetrators
- ANC bomber tells Truth body of torture, sabotage campaign
- Danger posed to SA by former torturers, Truth Commission told
- Truth Commission hears of damage caused by torture
- Gauteng premier preaches forgiveness at Truth body hearings
- Right-wing student was silenced, Truth body told
- Truth body hears of attorney's murder
- Two IFP supporters to testify before Truth Commission
- Mother wants to know how her child died
- Truth Commission set to subpoena perpetrators
- Truth body enters final day of Johannesburg hearings
April 30, 1996
- Truth Commission's Johannesburg hearings continue
- Truth body to hear testimony on death of Ahmed Timol
- Bring Church Street bombers to justice, Truth body asked
- Police killed my husband, widow tells Truth Commission
- Truth body hears of activist's plunge from 10th-storey window
- Policeman at Truth body calls for guilty to come forward
- Retired policemen win `truth test' in Supreme Court
- Ex-commissioners demand rights committee adapts proceedings
- Truth body may subpoena Mamasela to tell of murders
April 29, 1996
- Gauteng Truth Commission hearings to begin
- Media `almost seeking' to bring Truth body into disrepute: Tutu
- Truth body asked to probe Botswanan bomb blast
- Demonstrators outside Truth body hearings in Jo'burg
- Truth body hears of security force shooting
- Cosas seeks truth about Apartheid atrocities
- Truth body hears testimony on deaths in detention
- Mandela pays unexpected visit to Truth body venue
- Church St bomb survivor wants justice
- Activists' family lawyers to meet Truth Commission lawyers
- Mandela hears tale of ANC abuses in exile
- Witness tells of years of abuse in ANC detention camp
- Truth Commission prepares for hearings in Northern Province
- Afrikaner tells how ANC bomb alerted him to liberation struggle
April 26, 1996
- Truth body to investigate allegations against Mkhize
- Switzerland to donate R4-m to Truth Commission: Mandela
April 25, 1996
- Truth commission ends Western Cape hearings on Thursday
- Judgment reserved in truth commission court interdict
- Woman asks Truth body to find her son
- Family asks Truth body to aid improvement of civil service
- Truth Commission wraps up Cape Town hearings
- Man tells Truth body infamous policeman was last person he saw
- Truth Commission holds back on amnesties
- Truth Commission calls in counsellors to debrief journalists
- Judgment reserved in court Truth hearing
- St James church massacre victims forgive attackers, Truth body told
- Govan Mbeki to tell story to Truth body
- Govan Mbeki testifies before Truth Commission
- ANC guerilla blown up by police, Truth body told
- SA Embassies asked to recruit victims for Truth Commission
- Taxi violence, third force evidence at next week's Truth hearings
- Truth Commission interdict hearings
- Court action puts brake on amnesty process
April 24, 1996
- Lubowski's father to testify at Truth hearings
- Minister, Tutu discuss Truth Commission's security
- Truth Commissioner hits out at policy of forced removals
- Truth Commission interdict hearings
- Witness tells Truth body she wishes son was dead
- Motherwell five's counsel accuses Truth Commission of bias
- Amnesty Committee considers applications
- Truth Commission should not extend its mandate: Foundation
- Mother tells Truth body she saw son's body in police van
- Former policemen seek court order against Truth Commission
- Supreme court hears argument for order against Truth body
April 23, 1996
- Truth Commission hears evidence of police dirty tricks
- Some applying for amnesty might be prosecuted: Omar
- Police who shot Guguletu seven should be prosecuted: mothers
- Dominee asks for Tutu's forgiveness
- Policeman buried victim's brains, Truth body told
- Murdered activists' families may challenge Truth body in court
- Tutu says he's shocked by `exquisite cruelty' of Apartheid govt
- Truth body told familes unsure what happened to son, husband
- Truth Commission faces two court challenges on Wednesday
April 22, 1996
- Truth Commission to hear more tales of torture and bomb blasts
- Bomb victim suffered anxiety, Truth Commission told
- Senator tells Commission of police beating MK leader
- Truth Commission investigates Pebco Three murder
- Truth body hears testimony on shooting of Peninsula teenager
- More than 20 killed in 1960 Langa massacre, Truth body hears
- Truth body to begin own probe of 3 activists' deaths
April 21, 1996
- Truth body set to resume hearings in Cape Town
- Elusive search for the truth
- Former Vlakplaas officer confesses to more than 30 murders
April 20, 1996
April 19, 1996
April 18, 1996
- Truth Commission to hear about death in detention
- Widow tells Truth body husband killed after spy accusation
- Witness tells Truth Commission of mental, physical collapse
- Mother asks Truth body to fund dignified burial for son
- High-level ANC members expected to testify at Truth hearings
- Clerics call for prayer ahead of Wcape Truth hearings
- Neighbour tells Truth body of petrol-bomb attack on nurse
- Transkei police `tortured homeland cabinet minister to death'
- Police showed him severed hand in bottle, says witness
- Truth Commission's first hearing closes
- Torture tale ends Truth Commission's historic first hearings
April 17, 1996
- Police rejoiced after killing boy, Truth Commision told
- More former police might resort to supreme court: ex-generals
- Witness tells Truth Commission she wants to meet attacker
- Police killed activist in fourth attempt, Truth Commission told
April 16, 1996
- Disappearance of Mbeki's cousin - Truth Commission evidence
- Truth Commission to hear of abductions, poisonings in detention
- Widow tells Truth body she suspects police killed husband
- Mother, 82, asks Truth body for tombstone for slain son
- Truth body witness weeps
- Court application against Truth Commission postponed
- Truth Commission promises not to hear evidence implicating cops
April 15, 1996
- Tutu arrives at hall in upbeat mood
- Witnesses named for East London Truth hearings
- ANC welcomes first Truth Commission hearings
- IFP says it will not take part in Truth Commission
- First witness testifies before Truth Commission
- Witness tells Truth Commission of torture, husband's `suicide'
- Bomb threat disrupts Truth Commission hearing
- Sniffer dogs search hall after bomb scare at Truth hearing
- Union says no truth will come out of Truth Commission hearings
- Truth Commission hearing resumes after bomb scare
- Hotel attack victim wants justice, Commission told
- Truth Commission seeks spiritual guidance
- Tales of torture, murder and abduction at Truth Commission
- Widows ask Truth Commission to find their husbands' bodies
- Former SAPS generals clarify detention rules
- Families back down on plan to stop Truth Commission
April 13, 1996
April 12, 1996
April 11, 1996
- Omar not to address Truth Commission meeting as advertised
- Human rights abusers may be named next week, Boraine says
- Truth commission not losing credibility, says Tutu
- Constitutional challenge to Truth Commission goes ahead
- Truth Commission opponents aiding apartheid offenders: ANC
April 10, 1996
- Omar asked to intervene in Truth Commission dispute
- Omar to oppose Concourt application on Truth Commission act
- PAC to participate in Truth Commission
- Truth Commission is trying to appease aggressors: AZAPO
- Concourt rejects Truth Commission application
- Victims of Apartheid need justice before reconciliation
- Truth Commission shrugs off legal action threat
April 9, 1996
- Challenge to Truth Commission's constitutionality due Tuesday
- Tutu hears story of son's shooting in Gugulethu
- Millions of rands being wasted on political trials: Tutu
- Interdict threat to postpone Truth Commission hearings
- Truth Commission hearings to go ahead says Tutu
April 5, 1996
April 4, 1996
- Deputy A-G appointed Truth Commission's witness protector
- Buthelezi prepared to meet Truth Commission chairman Tutu
- ANC rejects IFP call for two Truth Commission resignations
April 3, 1996
- Magistrate sends Truth Commission accused to Valkenberg
- ANC says NP must give info on activists missing since 1960
April 2, 1996
- Mxenge family wants Coetzee prosecuted
- Truth body rejects request for Coetzee amnesty application
- Omar approves witness protection programme
- Testifying before Truth Commission a death sentence: IFP
April 1, 1996
- Kwazulu violence victims afraid to speak out
- Truth Commission lays charge against “liar”
- Truth Commission charges “liar”
- Human Rights Commission members receive R143000 a year
- Former ANC intelligence agent appointed to Truth Commission
- PE man charged with lying to Truth Commission
- Truth Commission asked to hand over Coetzee's amnesty application
March 31, 1996
March 30, 1996
March 28, 1996
- Truth Commission tells Omar it wants witness protector soon
- Tutu says he won't apologise for officials' salaries
- EL Truth hearing will go ahead: Tutu
- Truth body moves to delay amnesty hearings
- Constitution challenge not credibility threat, says Boraine
- Malan prepared to go before Truth Commission
March 27, 1996
- Database boost for Truth Commission on eve of hearings
- Court case may force postponement of EL Truth hearing
March 25, 1996
March 20, 1996
- Truth probe unit still not set up
- Govt to spend R4m on Truth Commission office rentals
- Rape cases should also be investigated, says Truth Commissioner
March 19, 1996
- Rightwing bomber dies, amnesty application still pending
- Victims on both sides of apartheid conflict to tell stories
- Timetable for Truth Commission hearings released
March 18, 1996
- Truth Commission to meet St James, Trojan horse survivors
- Eastern Cape Truth office asks for halt in submissions
March 15, 1996
March 14, 1996
- Mandela rejected outstanding candidates for Truth body: Mbeki
- Police support group opposed to overseas police investigators
March 12, 1996
- Truth Commission confirms de Kock amnesty bid
- Perpetrators should repent before receiving amnesty: Chilean expert
- Truth Commission to sift through ‘mountains’ of documents
- Amnesty committee awaiting appointment of secretary
March 11, 1996
March 10, 1996
March 8, 1996
- Former Vlakplaas commander, Dirk Coetzee, applies for amnesty
- Dirk Coetzee applies for amnesty from Truth Commission
- Dirk Coetzee says he wishes to put the past to rest
- Tutu still trying to meet Buthelezi
- R70 million budget for Truth inquiry
- Dutch detectives in SA to help Truth Commission
March 5, 1996
- Truth Commission will offer psychological help for offenders
- Truth Commission may set up 24-hour helpline to handle inquiries
March 4, 1996
- Truth Commission appoints CEO
- Azapo to challenge aspects of Reconciliation Act
- Date for first Truth hearing
- Media coverage of the Truth Commission in the dock
March 1, 1996
- Whites still dominate South African society, says Omar
- Don't distinguish between human rights violations: NP
- Truth Commission to seek legal advice
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