Vlakplaas
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Vlakplaas
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Author : Robin Binckes
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2018-07-30
Vlakplaas written by Robin Binckes and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-30 with History categories.
Faced with the total onslaught by its enemies, in 1979, Apartheid South Africa established Vlakplaas lit. shallow farm, a 100-hectare farm nestling in the hills outside Pretoria on the Hennops River as a secret operation under the arm of C1, a counter-terrorism division of the South African Police headed by Brigadier Schoon.The first phase of Vlakplaas operations, up until 1989, was aimed at fighting the enemy: the armed wings of the liberation movements, the African National Congresss Umkhonto we Sizwe (or MK), the Pan Africanist Congresss Azanian Peoples Liberation Army (or APLA) and the South African Communist Party. The second phase was fighting organized crime in which Vlakplaas itself seamlessly adopted the mantle of organized crime in the notorious downtown area of Johannesburgs Hillbrow. The final phase, the most destructive, was as the murky Third Force that destabilized the country in an orgy of violence in the run-up to its first democratic elections, in 1994.Operating within South Africa as well as beyond the countrys borders, it will never been known how many victims can be attributed to the Vlakplaas agenda with much of the execution taking place on the farm itself but a conservative figure of 1,000 murders and assassinations has been mooted.
Eugene De Kock
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Author : Anemari Jansen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Eugene De Kock written by Anemari Jansen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Assassins categories.
The blood of several anti-apartheid activists is on Eugene de Kock's hands and for most South Africans he represents prime evil. Is there any humaneness to be found in the man who many call a monster; and how did he come to be an 'assassin for the state' ? Anemari Jansen went in search of answers by looking at De Kock's strict upbringing, his first exposure to gruesome scenes as a young police officer on the East Rand and in the Border War where he became a hunter of people. Jansen had exclusive access to De Kock's family as well as former Koevoet and Vlakplaas colleagues. She paints a picture of a highly intelligent but complex individual who was an outsider since childhood. Jansen also quotes extensively from De Kock's diaries and an unpublished manuscript. In his own words, De Kock is scathingly honest and he doesn\2019t shy away from describing atrocities in detail or identifying the superiors from whom he received his orders. The book sketches an era and the environment in which Vlakplaas took place, but also offers a unique insight into De Kock's soul and his humanity--Publisher's website.
Unfinished Business
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Author : Terry Bell
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 2003
Unfinished Business written by Terry Bell and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
This book pulls back the curtain on the 'political miracle' of the new South Africa.
A Human Being Died That Night
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Author : Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
language : en
Publisher: Portobello Books
Release Date : 2013-05-23
A Human Being Died That Night written by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and has been published by Portobello Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-23 with History categories.
While working for South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Committee, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela interviewed former police colonel Eugene De Cock, who commanded a unit believed to have killed a number of anti-apartheid activists. De Cock was charged with, among other crimes against humanity, six murders and sentenced to 212 years in prison. A Human Being Died That Night is about the complexities of post-apartheid South Africa and sees a white man exploring his psyche with a member of the race he tried to annihilate.
Unsettling Accounts
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Author : Leigh A. Payne
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2008-01-11
Unsettling Accounts written by Leigh A. Payne and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-11 with Law categories.
DIVFocuses on perpetrators of human rights crimes, investigating confessions by human rights violators in contexts of transitional justice in South America and South Africa./div
Into The Heart Of The Whore
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Author : Jacques Pauw
language : en
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Release Date : 2017-12-14
Into The Heart Of The Whore written by Jacques Pauw and has been published by Jonathan Ball Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-14 with History categories.
The ongoing assassinations of anti-apartheid activists led to rumours that some kind of third force must be responsible. The South African government flatly denied any involvement. All investigations of the matter were met with stony silence. The first crack in the wall came with the publication by the Vrye Weekblad newspaper of the extraordinary story of Dirk Coetzee, former Security Branch Captain. His tale of murder, kidnapping, bombing and poisoning provided corroboration of the shocking confessions made by Almond Nofemela on death row. Slowly the dark secret started unravelling under the probing of determined journalists. In the Heart of the Whore introduces the reader to the secret underworld of the death squads. It explains when and why they were created, who ran them, what methods they employed, who the victims and perpetrators were. Jacques Pauw was more closely involved with the subject than any other person outside the police and armed forces. In this groundbreaking work he looks at the devastating effect of the secret war on the opponents of apartheid as well as the corrosive effects on the people who committed these crimes.
The South African Intelligence Services
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Author : Kevin A. O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-11
The South African Intelligence Services written by Kevin A. O'Brien and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11 with Business & Economics categories.
This book is the first full history of South African intelligence and provides a detailed examination of the various stages in the evolution of South Africa’s intelligence organizations and structures. Covering the apartheid period of 1948-90, the transition from apartheid to democracy of 1990-94, and the post-apartheid period of new intelligence dispensation from 1994-2005, this book examines not only the apartheid government’s intelligence dispensation and operations, but also those of the African National Congress, and its partner, the South African Communist Party (ANC/SACP) – as well as those of other liberation movements and the ‘independent homelands’ under the apartheid system. Examining the civilian, military and police intelligence structures and operations in all periods, as well as the extraordinarily complicated apartheid government’s security bureaucracy (or 'securocracy') and its structures and units, the book discusses how South Africa’s Cold War ‘position’ influenced its relationships with various other world powers, especially where intelligence co-operation came to bear. It outlines South Africa’s regional relationships and concerns – the foremost being its activities in South-West Africa (Namibia) and its relationship with Rhodesia through 1980. Finally, it examines the various legislative and other governance bases for the existence and operations of South Africa’s intelligence structures – in all periods – and the influences that such activities as the Rivonia Trial (at one end of the history) or the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (at the other end) had on the evolution of these intelligence questions throughout South Africa’s modern history. This book will be of great interest to all students of South African politics, intelligence studies and international politics in general.
Empathic Vision
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Author : Jill Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2005
Empathic Vision written by Jill Bennett and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
This book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma from a range of countries, including Colombia, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Australia. It focuses on what makes visual language unique, arguing that the "affective" quality of art contributes to a new understanding of the experience of trauma and loss. By extending the concept of empathy, it also demonstrates how we might, through art, make connections with people in different parts of the world whose experiences differ from our own. The book makes a distinct contribution to trauma studies, which has tended to concentrate on literary forms of expression. It also offers a sophisticated theoretical analysis of the operations of art, drawing on philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze, but setting this within a postcolonial framework. Empathic Vision will appeal to anyone interested in the role of culture in post-September 11 global politics.
Into The Heart Of Darkness
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Author : Jacques Pauw
language : en
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Release Date : 2017-12-14
Into The Heart Of Darkness written by Jacques Pauw and has been published by Jonathan Ball Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-14 with History categories.
Jacques Pauw has been an investigative journalist for more than three decades. Before the phenomenal success of The President's Keepers, he spent years tracking down apartheid death squads. Into the Heart of Darkness, first released in 1997, was the result of this work. Despite official denials and cover-ups, the rumours of apartheid's death squads have now been proved to be all too real. Hundreds of anti-apartheid activists were killed and thousands tortured by a group of bizarre assassins, the foot soldiers of apartheid's secret war. Jacques Pauw has been more closely involved with apartheid's killers than any other journalist. For more than seven years, he has hunted them down and become a witness to their secret and forbidden world. Into the Heart of Darkness will take you on a journey into the minds and lives of the men who went out to kill and kill again. What caused these souls to become so dark and guided them to so much evil?
The Trials Of Richard Goldstone
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Author : Daniel Terris
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2018-12-10
The Trials Of Richard Goldstone written by Daniel Terris and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Richard Goldstone emerged as a leading champion of human rights, first as a judge taking on the apartheid system in his native South Africa, then investigating war crimes in Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, and Gaza. This new biography tells the story of a remarkable individual and the price he paid for his convictions.