Most Africans live in countries where political assassinations have been perpetrated through the years and where, equally regularly, such murders were covered up. South Africans during the apartheid era were victims par excellence of such systematic killing. The difference is that they are now finding out who the murderers were. One of those seeking amnesty was Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, who could be South Africa's next president. In coming forward, Mbeki and his colleagues demonstrated their respect for the law and helped defuse charges that the commission was a witch hunt against whites.
Natural justice calls for some retribution.