Tue 06 Dec 2005 |
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Imminent Hearing of Khulumani International Lawsuit Appeal |
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An appeal against the judgment of the Southern District Court in New York in the Khulumani et. al. v. Barclays et. al lawsuit (“the Khulumani International Lawsuit”) is to be heard in December 2005 or January 2006, in the Second Circuit Court of Appeal in New York.
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Mon 21 Nov 2005 |
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Khulumani East Rand protest focusses on TRC "Unfinished Business" |
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| Almost ten years since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission first opened its doors in April 1996 and seven years since it handed over its First Report to President Mandela in a special ceremony in Pretoria on October 29, 1998, the victims and survivors of apartheid human rights violations continue to seek redress for the harm done to them, that has left them in need of special measures to ensure their capacity to access the opportunities that have become available since 1994. Khulumani members seek to raise awareness of serious challenges in respect of this “Unfinished Business”. Khulumani’s march and gathering today in the Germiston CBD will focus on this Unfinished Business. |
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Tue 18 Oct 2005 |
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Lawsuit Appeal Date set for November 21 in New York |
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An appeal against the judgement of the Southern District Court in New York in the Khulumani et. al. v. Barclays et. al lawsuit (“the Khulumani International Lawsuit”) is to be heard on the 21st of November 2005, in the Second Circuit Court of Appeal in New York. |
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Wed 12 Oct 2005 |
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Concern about disappearance and detention of two South African Muslim clerics in The Gambia |
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| Despite yesterday’s newspaper reports that the two Pretoria-based Muslim clerics, Moulana Farhaad Ahmed Dockrat and his son Muaaz, were finalising plans to return home nearly sixteen days after their departure from South Africa on a brief exchange visit to Islamic learning institutions in Senegal and The Gambia, and thirteen days after their scheduled return, the two clerics remain in custody in a detention centre in The Gambia. Moulana Farhaad Ahmed Dockrat is the principal of the Darus Salaam Islamic College in Laudium in Pretoria and Muaaz is a lecturer at the college. |
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Sun 09 Oct 2005 |
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October 10: International Day Against the Death Penalty |
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| Nearly ten years after the ending of the death penalty in South Africa, sixty-three prisoners remain technically under sentence of death, although the death penalty was finally abolished in South Africa in the 1995 Makwanyane Constitutional Court ruling which forbad the state to “to execute any person already sentenced to death” and provided for them to remain in custody until such sentences had been set aside in accordance with law and substituted by lawful punishments.” |
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Wed 21 Sep 2005 |
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Khulumani Asks: "Did Business Profit from Apartheid?" |
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 Did business profit from apartheid in South Africa?
Can business be held accountable for human rights violations under apartheid? What is the nature of the relationship between business and politics? What role has and can business play in making redress for the past? |
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Sun 28 Aug 2005 |
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Vlakplaas Commemoration of International Day of the Disappeared: August 30, 2005 |
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There were many disappearances during apartheid and most of these cases remain unresolved. Disappearances are an ongoing worldwide phenomenon. Being a family member of a disappeared person is a kind of daily torture. “There can be no rest, no mourning, no closure as long as the truth has not emerged. This search for the truth is extremely frustrating and painful, and family members are often completely alone in their despair,” says Ewould Plate of the Project Linking Solidarity, which coordinates the lobbying activities of civil society around the world on the issue of enforced disappearances. |
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Sun 07 Aug 2005 |
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Zulu Love Letter Special Screenings - Honouring South African Women Survivors |
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| On Sunday August 7, 2005, the first of several special screenings of the new South African film, Zulu Love Letter, will take place at Southgate Ster Kinekor for members of Khulumani Support Group. The Film Resource Unit is partnering Khulumani Support Group, the national membership organisation of victims and survivors of apartheid gross human rights abuses, in these screenings. |
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Wed 06 Jul 2005 |
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Judge Mohamed Jajbhay's Comments |
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Judge Mohamed Jajbhay is reported to have said that it is time to move on from our apartheid history and forge ahead with democracy despite the pain it often causes. Judge Jajbhay is also said to have stated that the sacrifices made by millions of South Africans who helped create our democracy can never be undermined. With respect, we disagree. The sacrifices of many who suffered gross human rights abuses and violations at the hands of the apartheid regime are being undermined. |
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Tue 05 Jul 2005 |
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Respect the Bereaved as well as the Bones |
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On Sunday 10 July, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) will be ceremonially handing over bones from five bodies of "the disappeared". These person's remains have now been formally identified and can be returned to their grieving families. The NPA have been assisted in this task by forensic experts from Argentina.
Subsequent to the official closure of the TRC, Khulumani has received a substantial number of reports of "apartheid-disappeared" family members from persons who were not able to give testimony at the TRC. The number of reports "officially" recognised by the TRC as "the disappeared" are only about a third of those who were forcibly disappeared under apartheid.
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