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Original Post Date: 2003-12-01 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 12/1/2003 8:21:48 AM
Apartheid victims "want money, not a special service"
[Note. I still say that 20 years from now, Apartheid’s gonna be looking pretty good. Apartheid was hardly any different from Colonialism anywhere in Africa. And most parts of Africa have fallen apart since those days. The same will happen in SA – I see the slow slide every day. Just give it another 20 years – blacks will be worse off in the future than they ever were under Apartheid. Jan]
Still waiting for long-promised reparations payments, members of an apartheid victims’ support group have disrupted a ceremony held in their honour.
About 300 members of the Khulumani group, led by veteran anti-apartheid activist Shirley Gunn, yesterday forced their way into the VIP tent after organisers told them to be seated at the back of the venue.
“We are sick and tired of being told what to do and continually being treated like third-class citizens,” Gunn said. “The government is insulting the people who suffered under apartheid and who are owed reparations by having this swooping extravaganza that is absolutely farcical.”
After about 20 minutes, the group agreed to take their seats outside in the scorching heat in Cape Town’s Company Gardens.
Nearly a decade after apartheid’s demise, the government last month began issuing one-off R30 000 payments to 22 000 victims of gross human rights abuses who testified before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The payments, totalling R660-million, fall far short of the R3-billion recommended by the TRC.
Victims who did not testify are not eligible for compensation. Instead, the government is holding a series of ceremonies across the country in their honour.
It is also building a memorial, outside Pretoria, to those killed under the racist regime. Called Freedom Park, it will include a museum, memorial gardens and monuments.
“The symbolic gesture is our greatest reminder to people not to repeat the atrocities of the past,” Western Cape ANC leader Ebrahim Rasool said at the ceremony.
“We cannot put a price on suffering, but the victims need to understand that the government is dealing with this as best they can.”
The reparation payments, which are being made by electronic bank transfer, have been slow to arrive.
Maureen Mazibuko (51) said she still had not received any money from the government. Twenty-seven years ago, Mazibuko saw her husband Lucky shot twice in the chest at close range by a white policeman in front of their Cape Town home.
The incident plunged her into depression. Incapable of looking after her then 3-year-old son, Steven, the child was sent to live with his grandmother in Johannesburg. Mazibuko has not seen him since.
“Money means nothing to me,” said Mazibuko, who went to the TRC for answers about why her husband was killed. She walked away empty-handed.
“I know people in our Khulumani group who lost everything they owned, but because they did not testify, they will get nothing,” she said, sitting in the shade of a tree away from the ceremony. “I don’t understand that.”
In November last year, US lawyer Michael Hausfeld filed a lawsuit in New York on behalf of Khulumani against 20 multinational corporations, including ChevronTexaco and IBM, for “knowingly aiding and abetting the apartheid enterprise”. – Sapa-AP
Source: The Star, Johannesburg
URL: http://www.star.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=12…br>