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VU Research Portal Itineraries Rousseau, N. 2019 document version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Link to publication in VU Research Portal citation for published version (APA) Rousseau, N. (2019). Itineraries: A return to the archives of the South African truth commission and the limits of counter-revolutionary warfare. General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. E-mail address: [email protected] Download date: 09. Oct. 2021 VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT Itineraries A return to the archives of the South African truth commission and the limits of counter-revolutionary warfare ACADEMISCH PROEFSCHRIFT ter verkrijging van de graad Doctor aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, op gezag van de rector magnificus prof.dr. V. Subramaniam, in het openbaar te verdedigen ten overstaan van de promotiecommissie van de Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen op woensdag 20 maart 2019 om 15.45 uur in de aula van de universiteit, De Boelelaan 1105 door Nicky Rousseau geboren te Dundee, Zuid-Afrika promotoren: prof.dr. -
South·Africa in Transition
POLITICS OF HOPE AND TERROR: South ·Africa in Transition Report on Violence in South Africa by an American Friends Service Committee Study Team November 1992 The American Friends Service Committee's concern over Southern Africa has grown out of over 60 years of relationships since the first visit by a representative of the organization. In 1982 the AFSC Board of Directors approved the release of a full length book, Challenge and Hope, as a statement of its views on South Africa. Since 1977 the AFSC has had a national Southern Africa educational program in its Peace Education Division. AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE 1501 Cherry Street Philadelphia, PA 19102 (215) 241-7000 AFSC REGIONAL OFFICES: Southeastern Region, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, 92 Piedmont Avenue, NE; Middle Atlantic Region, Baltimore, Maryland 21212, 4806 York Road; New England Region, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140, 2161 Massachusetts Avenue; Great Lakes Region, Chicago, Illinois 60605, 59 E. Van Buren Street, Suite 1400; North Central Region, Des Moines, Iowa 50312, 4211 Grand Avenue; New York Metropolitan Region, New York, New York 10003, 15 Rutherford Place; Pacific Southwest Region, Pasadena, California 91103, 980 N. Fair Oaks Avenue; Pacific Mountain Region, San Francisco, California 94121,2160 Lake Street; Pacific Northwest Region, Seattle, Washington 98105, 814 N.E. 40th Street. CONTENTS II THE AFSC DELEGATION 1 PREFACE III POLITICS OF HOPE AND TERROR: South Africa in Transition 1 THE BASIC VIOLENCE 2 ANALYZING THE VIOLENCE 5 THE HIDDEN HAND 7 RETALIATION 9 POLICE INVESTIGATIONS 11 LESSONS FROM THE BOIPATONG MASSACRE 12 HOMELAND VIOLENCE IN CISKEI AND KWAZULU 13 HOMELAND LEADERS BUTHELEZI AND GQOZO 16 CONCLUSION 19 RECOMMENDATIONS 20 ACRONYMS 21 TEAM INTERVIEWS AND MEETINGS 22 THE AFSC DELEGATION TO SOUTH AFRICA The American Friends Service Committee's Board of Directors approved a proposal in June 1992 for a delegation to visit South Africa to study the escalating violence there. -
Trekking Outward
TREKKING OUTWARD A CHRONOLOGY OF MEETINGS BETWEEN SOUTH AFRICANS AND THE ANC IN EXILE 1983–2000 Michael Savage University of Cape Town May 2014 PREFACE In the decade preceding the dramatic February 1990 unbanning of South Africa’s black liberatory movements, many hundreds of concerned South Africans undertook to make contact with exile leaders of these organisations, travelling long distances to hold meetings in Europe or in independent African countries. Some of these “treks”, as they came to be called, were secret while others were highly publicised. The great majority of treks brought together South Africans from within South Africa and exile leaders of the African National Congress, and its close ally the South African Communist Party. Other treks involved meetings with the Pan Africanist Congress, the black consciousness movement, and the remnants of the Non-European Unity Movement in exile. This account focuses solely on the meetings involving the ANC alliance, which after February 1990 played a central role in negotiating with the white government of F.W. de Klerk and his National Party regime to bring about a new democratic order. Without the foundation of understanding established by the treks and thousands of hours of discussion and debate that they entailed, it seems unlikely that South Africa’s transition to democracy could have been as successfully negotiated as it was between 1990 and the first democratic election of April 1994. The following chronology focuses only on the meetings of internally based South Africans with the African National Congress (ANC) when in exile over the period 1983–1990. Well over 1 200 diverse South Africans drawn from a wide range of different groups in the non- governmental sector and cross-cutting political parties, language, educational, religious and community groups went on an outward mission to enter dialogue with the ANC in exile in a search to overcome the escalating conflict inside South Africa. -
South Africa
Safrica Page 1 of 42 Recent Reports Support HRW About HRW Site Map May 1995 Vol. 7, No.3 SOUTH AFRICA THREATS TO A NEW DEMOCRACY Continuing Violence in KwaZulu-Natal INTRODUCTION For the last decade South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal region has been troubled by political violence. This conflict escalated during the four years of negotiations for a transition to democratic rule, and reached the status of a virtual civil war in the last months before the national elections of April 1994, significantly disrupting the election process. Although the first year of democratic government in South Africa has led to a decrease in the monthly death toll, the figures remain high enough to threaten the process of national reconstruction. In particular, violence may prevent the establishment of democratic local government structures in KwaZulu-Natal following further elections scheduled to be held on November 1, 1995. The basis of this violence remains the conflict between the African National Congress (ANC), now the leading party in the Government of National Unity, and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), the majority party within the new region of KwaZulu-Natal that replaced the former white province of Natal and the black homeland of KwaZulu. Although the IFP abandoned a boycott of the negotiations process and election campaign in order to participate in the April 1994 poll, following last minute concessions to its position, neither this decision nor the election itself finally resolved the points at issue. While the ANC has argued during the year since the election that the final constitutional arrangements for South Africa should include a relatively centralized government and the introduction of elected government structures at all levels, the IFP has maintained instead that South Africa's regions should form a federal system, and that the colonial tribal government structures should remain in place in the former homelands. -
Looking Back.Pdf (241.9Kb)
Looking back: UWC and the redefinition of knowledge production in a changing society André Odendaal Honorary Professor in History and Heritage Studies, UWC Founding Director: The Mayibuye Centre (1990-1998) and Robben Island Museum (1996-2002) Professors Patricia Hayes and Premesh Lalu have in this edition of from exile to UWC after the unbanning of organisations in 1990. Signals provided useful insight into the importance of theory, Buoyed by the upsurge of resistance inside the country, Oliver history, archives and the humanities in South Africa, and how Tambo had announced in his annual presidential address on the they can help “assist us in building an ongoing capacity to 74th birthday of the ANC on 8 January 1986 that 1986 would resist oppression and develop a politics of care in the present be the “Year Of uMkhonto we Sizwe – the People’s Army’. The and future”. Their reflections on how to develop new ideas message was to make apartheid “ungovernable”. But unknown for the way forward in a country and “post-truth” world to many, Tambo had also on that very day set up a secret mired in crisis invite us to look back for lessons to the 1980s Constitution Committee in Lusaka, giving it an “Ad Hoc unique and 1990s when UWC famously started redefining itself as exercise” that had ”no precedent in history of the movement’”. an “intellectual home of the democratic left”, challenging the Knowing that all wars end at a negotiating table, he instructed traditional roles played by universities in South Africa. UWC his new think-tank to start preparing a constitutional framework questioned the whole system of knowledge production in South for a liberated, non-racial democratic South Africa, so that Africa and changed its mission to serve primarily excluded and when that time came the movement would be prepared and marginalised narratives, seeking in the process to develop “an holding the initiative. -
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report: Volume 2
VOLUME TWO Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report The report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was presented to President Nelson Mandela on 29 October 1998. Archbishop Desmond Tutu Ms Hlengiwe Mkhize Chairperson Dr Alex Boraine Mr Dumisa Ntsebeza Vice-Chairperson Ms Mary Burton Dr Wendy Orr Revd Bongani Finca Adv Denzil Potgieter Ms Sisi Khampepe Dr Fazel Randera Mr Richard Lyster Ms Yasmin Sooka Mr Wynand Malan* Ms Glenda Wildschut Dr Khoza Mgojo * Subject to minority position. See volume 5. Chief Executive Officer: Dr Biki Minyuku I CONTENTS Chapter 1 Chapter 6 National Overview .......................................... 1 Special Investigation The Death of President Samora Machel ................................................ 488 Chapter 2 The State outside Special Investigation South Africa (1960-1990).......................... 42 Helderberg Crash ........................................... 497 Special Investigation Chemical and Biological Warfare........ 504 Chapter 3 The State inside South Africa (1960-1990).......................... 165 Special Investigation Appendix: State Security Forces: Directory Secret State Funding................................... 518 of Organisations and Structures........................ 313 Special Investigation Exhumations....................................................... 537 Chapter 4 The Liberation Movements from 1960 to 1990 ..................................................... 325 Special Investigation Appendix: Organisational structures and The Mandela United -
REMEMBERING the ROLE of WOMEN in SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY THROUGH DIALOGUE Wathint’ Abafazi, Wathint’ Imbokodo Uzo Kufa! CONTENTS Foreword Page 4
malibongwe praiseigama be tolamakhosikasi women REMEMBERING THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY THROUGH DIALOGUE Wathint’ abafazi, wathint’ imbokodo uzo kufa! CONTENTS Foreword Page 4 Introduction Page 4 Welcome Page 5 Brigalia Ntombemhlophe Bam Page 6 - 9 Sophia Williams-De Bruyn Page 10 - 17 Rica Hodgson Page 18 - 23 Amina Cachalia Page 24 - 27 Graça Machel Page 28 - 31 Let’s Dialogue Page 32 - 39 Nelson Mandela Page 40 Conclusion Page 41 - 42 Reflections The text in this booklet is an edited version of the Malibongwe dialogue, which took place on May 30 2007 at the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Special thanks to the Apartheid Museum, the curators of the Malibongwe Exhibition, featuring portraits of veteran women activists by Gisèle Wulfsohn. FOREWORD ACHMAT DANGOR CEO, Nelson Mandela Foundation he Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) stalwarts of the struggle for seeks to contribute to a just society by freedom, and the role that promoting the vision and work of its women played during those Founder and convening dialogue around difficult, and often truly dark Tcritical social issues. years, achieved a remarkable level of candour, unmindful of Our Founder, Nelson Mandela, based his entire organisational or ideological life on the principle of dialogue, the art of listening loyalties. The critique of and speaking to others; it is also the art of getting latter day South Africa, its others to listen and speak to each other. Drawing on achievements and failures, was characterised by the contribution that he, his colleagues and comrades robust debate, honest, yet without rancour. made toward creating our fledgling democracy, the The panellists shared their rich histories, the NMF’s Centre of Memory and Dialogue encourages lessons they have learned over the years, their people to enter into dialogue – often about difficult hopes for our country and regrets for the things not subjects – in order to address the challenges we face done, with an inter-generational audience, which today. -
Why the Lights Went Out: Reform in the South African Energy Sector
Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice Strategic Leadership for Africa’s Public Sector WHY THE LIGHTS WENT OUT: REFORM IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN ENERGY SECTOR WHY THE LIGHTS WENT OUT: REFORM IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN ENERGY SECTOR UCT GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND PRACTICE 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This case study was researched and written by a team at the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), lead by Tracy van der Heijden, for the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School for Development Policy and Practice. Funding for the development of the case study was provided by the Employment Promotion Programme (funded by the Department for International Development). PARI would like to thank Ian McRae, Allen Morgan, Steve Lennon, Alec Erwin and Portia Molefe who were interviewed for the purposes of developing this case study. We would also like to thank Brian Levy for his input. This case study was researched and written by a team at the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), lead by Tracy van der Heijden, for the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School for Development Policy and Practice. Funding for the development of the case study was provided by the Employment Promotion Programme (funded by the Department for International Development). April 2013. WHY THE LIGHTS WENT OUT: REFORM IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN ENERGY SECTOR UCT GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND PRACTICE 3 PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (PARI) dimmed Vision THE LIGHTS GO OUT South Africans struggled to come to terms with a strange new lexicon. Terms like ‘rolling blackouts’, In 2008, South Africa’s lights went out. -
Intergovernmental Relations Policy Framework
INTERGOVERNMENTAL AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 1 POLICY : INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS POLICY FRAMEWORK Item CL 285/2002 PROPOSED INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS POLICY FRAMEWORK MC 05.12.2002 RESOLVED: 1. That the report of the Strategic Executive Director: City Development Services regarding a proposed framework to ensure sound intergovernmental relations between the EMM, National and Provincial Government, neighbouring municipalities, the S A Cities Network, organised local government and bulk service providers, BE NOTED AND ACCEPTED. 2. That all Departments/Portfolios of the EMM USE the Intergovernmental Relations Policy Framework to develop and implement mechanisms, processes and procedures to ensure sound intergovernmental relations and TO SUBMIT a policy and programme in this regard to the Speaker for purposes of co-ordination and approval by the Mayoral Committee. 3. That the Director: Communications and Marketing DEVELOP a policy on how to deal with intergovernmental delegations visiting the Metro, with specific reference to intergovernmental relations and to submit same to the Mayoral Committee for consideration. 4. That intergovernmental relations BE INCORPORATED as a key activity in the lOP Business Plans of all Departments of the EMM. 5. That the Ekurhuleni Intergovernmental Multipurpose Centre Steering Committee INCORPORATE the principles contained in the Intergovernmental Relations Framework as part of the policy on multipurpose centres to be formulated as contemplated in Mayoral Committee Resolution (Item LED 21-2002) of 3 October 2002. 6. That the City Manager, in consultation with the Strategic Executive Director: City Development Services, FINALISE AND APPROVE the officials to represent the EMM at the Technical Working Groups of the S A Cities Network. 7. That the Strategic Executive Director: City Development SUBMIT a further report to the Mayoral Committee regarding the necessity of participation of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality and its Portfolios/Departments on public bodies, institutions and organisations. -
Who Is Governing the ''New'' South Africa?
Who is Governing the ”New” South Africa? Marianne Séverin, Pierre Aycard To cite this version: Marianne Séverin, Pierre Aycard. Who is Governing the ”New” South Africa?: Elites, Networks and Governing Styles (1985-2003). IFAS Working Paper Series / Les Cahiers de l’ IFAS, 2006, 8, p. 13-37. hal-00799193 HAL Id: hal-00799193 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00799193 Submitted on 11 Mar 2013 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Ten Years of Democratic South Africa transition Accomplished? by Aurelia WA KABWE-SEGATTI, Nicolas PEJOUT and Philippe GUILLAUME Les Nouveaux Cahiers de l’IFAS / IFAS Working Paper Series is a series of occasional working papers, dedicated to disseminating research in the social and human sciences on Southern Africa. Under the supervision of appointed editors, each issue covers a specifi c theme; papers originate from researchers, experts or post-graduate students from France, Europe or Southern Africa with an interest in the region. The views and opinions expressed here remain the sole responsibility of the authors. Any query regarding this publication should be directed to the chief editor. Chief editor: Aurelia WA KABWE – SEGATTI, IFAS-Research director. -
Reclaim the Streets, the Protestival and the Creative Transformation of the City
Finisterra, XLVii, 94, 2012, pp. 103-118103 RECLAIM THE STREETS, THE PROTESTIVAL aND THE CREaTiVE TRaNSFoRMaTioN oF THE CiTY anDré carMo1 abstract – the main goal of this article is to reflect upon the relationship between creativity and urban transformation. it stems from the assumption that creativity has a para- doxical nature as it is simultaneously used for the production of the neoliberal city and by those seeking to challenge it and build alternative urban realities. first, we put forth a criti- cal review of the creative city narrative, focused on richard florida’s work, as it progres- sively became fundamental for the neoliberal city. afterwards, and contrasting with that dominant narrative, we describe a trajectory of Reclaim the Streets that provides the basis for our discussion of the protestival (protest + carnival) as its main creative force of urban transformation. Keywords: Creativity, urban transformation, Reclaim the Streets, protestival. Resumo – reclaiM the streets, o protestival e a transForMação criativa Da ciDaDe. O principal objetivo deste artigo é refletir sobre a relação existente entre criativi- dade e transformação urbana. Parte-se do princípio de que a criatividade tem uma natureza paradoxal, na medida em que é simultaneamente usada para a produção da cidade neolibe- ral, mas também por aqueles que procuram desafiá-la e construir realidades urbanas alter- nativas. Primeiro, fazemos uma revisão crítica da narrativa da cidade criativa, focada no trabalho de richard florida, por esta se ter progressivamente tornado fundamental para a cidade neoliberal. Depois, e contrastando com essa narrativa dominante, descrevemos uma trajetória do Reclaim the Streets que providencia a base para a nossa discussão do protesti- val (protesto + carnaval) como a sua principal força criativa de transformação urbana. -
G U I D E T O a L L P H O T O G R a P
Historical Papers Research Archive, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg G U I D E T O A L L P H O T O G R A P H S (Including an INDEX following the listing) Copyright: Historical Papers Research Archive, University of the Witwatersrand Library 1 This Guide incorporates material from the general Historical Papers collections and the archive of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa. The listing is followed by an INDEX. The descriptions include albums, scrapbooks, loose prints, negatives, slides, postcards, some posters, sketches and paintings, and images on glass or metal plates. Most of the items were received with collections of documents, others are photographic collections. A1 HOFMEYR, Jan Hendrik, 1894 – 1948 Gf1 Hofmeyr Gf1.1 Album of photographs 1 vol. 1947 Taken during the visit of Hofmeyr as Minister of Mines for the"Cutting of the First Sod Ceremony, Freddies North Lease Area Ltd and Freddies South Lease Area Ltd", O.F.S., 11 Jul.1947 Gf1.2 Mounted Gf1.2.1 Hofmeyr as a boy of about 12, with cat on shoulder Gf1.2.2 Hofmeyr as a young man Gf1.2.3. Hofmeyr, with mother, and two others, unidentified Gf1.2.4 Hofmeyr, being presented with the volume of the Hebrew "Thesaurus" by Leon Feldberg Gf1.2.5 Hofmeyr, in group Gf1.3 Loose 9 items Undated Gf1.3.1 Taken at home, including one with cat, and one of his mother 6 items Gf1.3.2 with two young ladies 3 items Gf2 Other Gf2.1 Identified Gf2.1.1 S.A.Morrison, Dec.1927 Gf2.1.2 Ronald S.Dewar, Xmas 1936 Gf2.1.3 G.Kramer, 9 Nov.1940 Gf2.1.4 Edwin Swales, June 1941 Gf2.1.5 Leif Egeland and wife, 5 Feb.1944 Gf2.1.6 Visit of Royal Family to Cape Town, 1947 3 items Gf2.1.7 General Smuts, Undated Gf2.1.8 Copy of portrait of C.N.de Wet Gf2.1.9 Copy of effigy of Paul Kruger Gf2.1.10 Boys Camp, Undated 24 items Gf2.2 Unidentified 16 items Kd1-8.