Apartheid detainee to be exhumed (South Africa / 1963)

[struggle4progress]

... The exhumation ... will take place on Thursday at Mamelodi West Cemetery, near Pretoria ...

"His involvement in politics began in the 1950s and he was an active member of the African National Congress, SA Communist Party and the South Africa Congress of Trade Unions.

"In May 1963 an order banning Ngudle from participating in political activities was issued and he was confined to the Wynberg magisterial district in Cape Town.

"But two months later police swooped on his place of hiding and that is when he was arrested and moved to Pretoria and held at the Pretoria North police cells.

"Tragedy struck when he was found hanging in his cell on the 5th of September 1963."

http://iafrica.com/news/sa/643468.htm

[IChing]

1. I glad that he is being recognized by South Africa

“As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.”
Nelson Mandela

Stephen Bantu Biko was a non-violent anti-apartheid activist, who was murdered by the apartheid police force.

1977 "We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth. These are concepts which the Black Consciousness approach wishes to eradicate from the black man's mind before our society is driven to chaos by irresponsible people from Coca-cola and hamburger cultural backgrounds."

1971 he said the strongest, bravest thing that all americans must understand.


"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
Speech in Cape Town (not recorded by Faux news)

Links to his quotes for all freedom minded humans.
http://www.blogmark.co.za/index.php?q=node/5531

[Judi Lynn]

3. Here's that great quote copied onto a sign:

[Judi Lynn]

2. What a sad, sad end for a very good person. It seems there is a pattern in place, doesn't it?

Started to try to find a photo of him, haven't seen one yet, but did fing this very odd move by the government, in his regard:

The Special Branch and the District Surgeon claimed he committed suicide, but his family insisted he had been tortured and murdered. And, as if to confirm this, four days after his death the government ‘banned’ Ngudle, so that anything he said or wrote while alive could not be quoted. This was tantamount to an admission that his words would have contradicted the lies of the police.
(snip)

http://www.cosatu.org.za/press/2006/sept/press6.htm

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~snip~
"One day Looksmart came from behind and said he was going to drop a note for me and then he walked ahead of me... I saw him drop the note. When I got to where it fell I knelt down and hid it," he said.

When Mbeki got to his cell he read the note, which said he was being tortured and that his "whole back was full of sores and weals".

During their exercise period the following day Ngudle was called out by the guards.

"The following morning before breakfast... a voice came from under the cell door to say they have killed Looksmart Ngudle," Mbeki said.

Mbeki, who worked with Ngudle in the Western Cape region, did not know who had spoken to him, but "I presume it was one of the common law prisoners who acted as monitors in jail".

He heard later that Ngudle had hung himself, but wondered how this was possible because prisoners' ties were taken away from them.

"How then did he hang himself... if he did not have his tie?"

ANC senator Christmas Tinto on Monday told the commission how he had witnessed police beating Ngudle.

A subsequent inquest into his death ruled evidence regarding police ill-treatment of detainess as inadmissable.
(snip)http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/media/1996/9604/s960425l.htm

[IChing]

4. As i went down to the river to pray

about the good old days


can we get an amen on this thread.




Virginia just said what this week?

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

5. I wonder who America will be digging up 40 years from now...

[malaise]

6. And how different is what the racists did

in South Africa to what Bush, Blair and Howard are doing in the ME? Kill and steal resources - it's the old colonial model and non-whites are always the victims.

[Judi Lynn]

7. The only people safe from them look exactly like them, or, if different, will agree

to help them exploit and control the others.