You cannot but be aware of the judge's comment when he acquitted the 7 in the recent Sebokeng trial. Recently the Minister of Police sought to obtain a Supreme Court injunction to prevent the Weekly Mail from publishing a report on the existence of a highly clandestine police network in the Southern Transvaal region. The report showed that such covert operation networks existed in 11 regions into which the Police have divided our country. The evidence shows that either the NP government, even at its top most levels, sanctions such activities or that it is powerless to restrain the very forces it created. At the root of the violence is apartheid and its legacy.
All religions recognise that reconciliation requires confession and repentance.
I have avoided imposing such requirements in the hope that you and your government would reach that recognition on your own. We believe that your failure to acknowledge and recognise the centrality of apartheid with regard to the issue of violence can no longer be ignored. This is particularly so because the NP government persists in attributing the carnage in the black townships to black political rivalry. In this regard the Second Interim Report of the Goldstone Commission provides a useful point of departure. This report notes that the causes of the violence are many and complicated.