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@mfullard2
Jul 13, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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If you, like me, have been utterly despairing after days of gruelling videos and news spiraling down into a vortex of doom, here is a thread of some green shoots of hope. They made me feel much better.
Birch Acres Mall near Tembisa
One SANDF soldier doing the most. "No shopping!"
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Mar 18, 2022
Now this is something I can contribute to. Since 1999 myself & TRC colleagues have worked on the killing of Cde Naledi (real name Patrick Sandile Mvundla) and associated events. Also, as the Missing Persons Task Team (NPA) we exhumed the remains of Cde Naledi in 2019. 1/
It's a complex tale.
In late March 1988 an MK unit of four entered SA from Botswana. According to the survivor, they got lost after a few days. On 25 March 1988 two unit members went to look at a road intersection signboard & were spotted by two SADF members in a hidden post. 2/
A shooting took place. One MK member was killed and the second surrendered. The SADF members called for reinforcements. The captured MK member then led the security force members to a site a few kilometers away where his 2 other fellow MK members were concealed in a bushy area 3/
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Dec 26, 2021
An #ArchbishopTutu and TRC thread:

I walked into working at the TRC with a rather fixed set of old lefty beliefs about how political violence had unfolded. The TRC undid/reshaped many of them in ways that changed me forever & alienated me from much transitional justice debate 1/
I can never undo the nuances learnt, the pitiful details of every death, the numbers involved. Much was quite different to what is popularly imagined or what I had imagined. (It is hard to speak of this, because it is not popular. I hardly dare). 2/
When people write off "the TRC" or Archbishop Tutu, I know they have never engaged with the TRC material but are rather doing a metaphorical conflation of the TRC with the media image of Desmond Tutu. In this sense he is both a blessing and a burden to the legacy of the TRC. 3/
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Aug 27, 2020
A TALE OF ALCOHOL & COVID-19
Yesterday a colleague in Norkem Park heard an almighty bang outside his house. A car roared away. Being on Day 13 of quarantine after being diagnosed with COVID-19, he rushed out in pyjamas, slippers and mask. His neighbour's wall had a large hole. 1/
As he stared at the scene, a Tazz sailed down the road past him with bricks heaped on its damaged front. My colleague, being a police officer, dashed indoors, stashed his gun in his pyjamas, leapt in his police vehicle and took off after the suspect, siren blaring. 2/
My colleague eventually pulled the suspect vehicle over and ordered the driver out. Extremely drunk and apparently unaware of the prior collision, the driver was utterly shocked to see the bricks and damage to his vehicle and promptly urinated all over. 3/
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Jun 23, 2020
So @helenzille has said the post-1994 democratic govt has passed more racial laws than the apartheid era did. Here's a handy thread from the TRC report Volume 1 on pre-1994 apartheid legislation. -
Key:
A - denotes basic apartheid laws
W - workplace laws
S - security laws
P - political representation
L - land and property
E - education
U - urbanization
Only discriminatory legislation is listed.
There are twenty seven pages of laws listed. For the sake of 'brevity', the additional eighteen pages of homelands laws are not included here. They can be found on pages 478 - 496 of Volume 1.

Here we go:
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