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...Merwe's statements before Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Truth and Reconciliation Commission marked a turning point in the process of seeking redress for the brutality suffered by millions of South Africans during apartheid's kragdadigheid ("ironfistedness"). Set up by President Nelson Mandela last year, the commission has heard mainly from victims. But while many of their stories were moving, the inquiry was perceived as largely feckless, unable to tie the crimes to perpetrators, black or white, on either side of apartheid. Despite offers of amnesty, alleged culprits refused to confess because they were convinced they could get a better deal...
...appearance of the five officers, now under the wing of the Truth Commission's witness-protection program, constitutes what Alex Boraine, the commission's deputy chairman, calls a "trickle that could become a river." As Tutu's staff begins to serve subpoenas on officials implicated in the testimony so far, the pressure will mount for other alleged perpetrators to come forward to confess and receive amnesty. They have only until a Dec. 15 cut-off date. As the applications pour in--there are already some 2,000--commissioners believe they will hear evidence that will point high up the chain...
...credited, the swelling inquiry may spill over and reach even the "Groot Krokodil" (Great Crocodile), as he is known in Afrikaans. Last week, after rains caused the Touws River to burst its banks, Botha's living room was knee-deep in water, symbolic perhaps of what Tutu hopes will one day become a flood of justice...
...mother (Angela Pietropinto), presumably the same woman who inflicts pink and purple one-piece feety-pajamas on a twelve year old girl, bullies poor Dawn, even making her tear down the "Special People Clubhouse." Little sister Missy (Daria Kalinina) steals the spotlight, pirouetting around the font yard in a tutu, and big brother Mark (Matthew Faber) plays clarinet in a nerdy garage band-- The Quadratics--and plots his collegiate escape...
...kind to a spitball attack, she almost puts a teacher's eye out. Things are scarcely better at home: Dad is passive, Mom is aggressive; her elder brother is a computer nerd and the leader of a hopeless garage band; her little sister is a tattletale in a tutu, meanly waltzing off with such love as can survive in the cold climate of split-level suburbia...