Word: truths
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...with her familiar clenched-fist salute, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was, as usual, center stage on her recent visit to the U.S. But back home last week, the ex-wife of South Africa's President faced a less flattering limelight. It was her turn to go before the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on human-rights violations during the apartheid era, and the testimony there further clouded the reputation of the woman once called Mother of the Nation...
...kill another youngster, a girl she believed to be a police informer. Last week Katiza Cebekhulu, who said he was smuggled out of the country to prevent his giving testimony linking her to a number of Soweto murders, was one of more than 40 people called by the Truth Commission to testify to the activities of Winnie Mandela. Pointing his finger at her, the slightly built, nervous Cebekhulu declared, "I saw her kill Stompie." She shook her head, shrugged and turned away...
With the welter of claims and counter-claims and evidence that has been contradictory and based on hearsay, it is unlikely that the Truth Commission will come to any significant conclusion. Of more concern to many South Africans is the fact that Madikizela-Mandela has been nominated to run for deputy president of the majority African National Congress when Nelson Mandela retires as party head this month (he will remain head of the government until 1999) and his deputy, Thabo Mbeki, becomes party president...
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...
TRUE. I hired the best, most experienced people in the film business to work with me on Titanic. The simple truth is that no one in any department (myself included) really understood the scale of this project going in. We were overwhelmed by the complexity of building a studio from scratch, including the world's largest tank facility, and simultaneously constructing one of the largest and most mechanically complex sets in history (imagine a 75-story building on its side...now move it!). We were all seasoned big-budget veterans, yet none of us had ever experienced anything like Titanic...