TRC Episode 06, Part 01

This episode focuses on HRV Committee hearings held in Kimberley from 10 to 11 June. Segments include the 1993 Kimberley hand grenade explosion aimed at the Bophuthatswana consulate that killed COSAS activist Ezekiel Mokone, incidents of torture in the region and the attempted assassination of Anglican priest Michael Lapsley while living in Harare in 1990. Other segments cover the importance of symbolic reburials and includes an interview with a psychologist on the process of mourning; a report back on the Maseru cross border raid exposing the Vlakplaas unit responsible for the attack that killed MK Leon Meyer and eight others; and lastly, a report on the 1978 Cassinga massacre, the controversial SADF attack on a SWAPO settlement in Cassinga, Angola that killed hundreds of refugees. // Hello. After an absence of two weeks the Special Report is back. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is running full steam now so we'll be with you every Sunday night for the foreseeable future. Tonight we're going to tell you the remarkable story of a very courageous man who gave testimony at this week's Commission hearings in Kimberley. It's a story of Father Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest who was mutilated by a letter bomb, but his spirit and his resolve only grew stronger.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• truth
• reconciliation
• sabc
• special assignment
• max du preez
• south africa
• apartheid
• human rights
• violations
• murder
• abduction