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Collection Index: | HARMS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY, Death squads 1990 | | Collection Name: | HARMS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY, Death squads 1990 | |
AK2300 | HARMS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY RECORDS 1990 | | | | | | | | Copyright 2010, Historical Papers, The Library, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa | | | | | | | | Several judicial inquiries were undertaken in 1990. The most publicized, and ultimately the most disappointing, was the Harms Commission. Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee announced the establishment of the Harms Commission on January 31, in response to outcries by South African and international human rights groups over allegations by three former police officers in October and November 1989 that they had been members of an officially authorized and funded police death squad. In early 1990, another death squad, the Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB), sponsored by the South African Defense Forces, was revealed. The allegations presented the de Klerk government with one of its first major domestic crises and nearly provoked the dismissal of the Defense Minister, Gen. Magnus Malan. | | | | Unfortunately, the Harms Commission was seriously flawed in both design and practice. At the outset, Justice Harms announced that he would limit the inquiry to acts committed within the borders of South Africa, even though many anti-apartheid activists had been assassinated on foreign soil. Government witnesses, some of whom showed up to testify in wigs and other disguises, were not required to produce pertinent documents. The CCB was disbanded in August, but no prosecutions resulted. The Harms Commission report, which was released in November, failed to name any special units of the army or police, let alone any individual officers, as participants in the death squads. The report was denounced by opposition groups as a whitewash. | | | | Source: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,HRW,,ZAF,456d621e2,467fca2c2,0.html | | | | | | | | The records in this collection consist of 2957 pages of evidence heard in South Africa and 960 pages of evidence heard in London. The collection is digitally available, see below in this online inventory, but there are no hardcopies. | | | | 1 CD | | | | | | | | LISTING OF EVIDENCE | | | | | | | A | LONDON EVIDENCE | | | | | | | A1 | Tshikalange, 264 pages | | | A2 | Coetzee, 679 pages | | | | | | | | | | | B | SOUTH AFRICA EVIDENCE | | | | | | | | The South African evidence streches over 2957 pages. Please use the list of persons below, which will indicate the page numbers, where their evidence can be found. The links to the online documents are arranged by the very same page numbers. | | | | | | | | Badenhorst, pp 8-60 | | | | Barnard, pp 898-929, 1469-1546 | | | | Botes, pp 1684-2011 | | | | Botha, pp 2121-2149 | | | | Brits, pp 1168-1307, 1367-1419 | | | | Buchner, pp 2812-2823 | | | | Burger, pp 1420-1469 | | | | Cilliers, pp 1307-1364 | | | | Du Plessis, pp 2763-2811, 2930-2957 | | | | Du Plooy, pp 2012-2042 | | | | Joubert, pp 61-89 | | | | Klopper, pp 64-73 | | | | Mamasela, pp 2164-2258, 2475-2512 | | | | Mostert, pp 993-1168 | | | | Neetling, pp 2841-2886 | | | | Ngqulunga, pp 2258-2344 | | | | Nofemela, pp 96-518, 580-690 | | | | Pfeil, pp 74-82 | | | | Schoon, pp 2512-2596 | | | | "September", pp 2887-2919 | | | | Van der Hoven, pp 2344-2367 | | | | Van Deventer, pp 2043-2071 | | | | Van Dyk, pp 2597-2633 | | | | Van Rensburg, pp 2823-2840 | | | | Van Zyl, pp 524-579, 700-897 | | | | Vermeulen, pp 2633-2652 | | | | Verster, pp 1547-1683 | | | | Webb, pp 2072-2120 | | | | Wright, pp 524, 985-993 | | | | | | | | | | | B1 | Introduction, 8 pages | | | | | | | B2 | Pages 8-60 | | | B3 | Pages 61-89 | | | B4 | Pages 90-96 | | | B5 | Pages 197-260 | | | B6 | Pages 261-315 | | | B7 | Pages 316-380 | | | B8 | Pages 381-427 | | | B9 | Pages 428-496 | | | B10 | Pages 497-518 | | | B11 | Pages 519-579 | | | B12 | Pages 580-648 | | | B13 | Pages 649-690 | | | B14 | Pages 700-773 | | | B15 | Pages 774-822 | | | B16 | Pages 823-897 | | | B17 | Pages 864-959 | | | B18 | Pages 985-1085 | | | B19 | Pages 1086-1158 | | | B20 | Pages 1159-1208 | | | B21 | Pages 1209-1342 | | | B22 | Pages 1343-1366 | | | B23 | Pages 1367-1419 | | | B24 | Pages 1420-1524 | | | B25 | Pages 1525-1638 | | | B26 | Pages 1639-1702 | | | B27 | Pages 1703-1792 | | | B28 | Pages 1793-1864 | | | B29 | Pages 1865-1985 | | | B30 | Pages 1986-2071 | | | B31 | Pages 2072-2120 | | | B32 | Pages 2121-2149 | | | B33 | Pages 2150-2276 | | | B34 | Pages 2378-2367 | | | B35 | Pages 2475-2537 | | | B36 | Pages 2538-2652 | | | B37 | Pages 2763-2840 | | | B38 | Pages 2841-2886 | | | B39 | Pages 2887-2919 | | | B40 | Pages 2920-2957 | | |
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