Word: madikizela
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Rita Nakashima Brock, director of the Bunting Institute, introduced Gobodo-Madikizela, praising her "unwavering commitment to justice...
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a peace fellow of the Institute, told a crowd of about 150 chilling stories of her interviews with both the victims and perpetrators of apartheid...
...smiled in a way I thought looked like a shy boy's smile," Gobodo-Madikizela said, recalling her first meeting with de Kock...
...Gobodo-Madikizela began her talk with a shorthistory of events that led to the TRC's creationin December 1995. Background information isnecessary, she said, "to give a clearunderstanding of the struggle of apartheid inSouth Africa...
Even if she loses, Madikizela-Mandela is still a Member of Parliament and continues to embarrass the A.N.C. with attacks on the government's integrity and its failure to deliver what the masses want. The Truth Commission hearing is not a trial, but it could find her responsible for what a leading witness, Methodist Bishop Peter Storey, called "a ruthless abuse of power." Her expulsion from the A.N.C. could follow. But even then, there will be many who believe that Madikizela-Mandela's transgressions were committed in the struggle against apartheid and that she should be praised, not pilloried...