How impartial?
WITCH-HUNT and circus are two of the politer words that right-wing Afrikaners use to denounce South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Few are more contemptuous of this body, set up to uncover apartheid-era crimes and offer amnesty to their perpetrators, than P.W. Botha, a former president. Now the attorney-general has decided to prosecute him for his defiance: Mr Botha was due to appear in court on January 23rd for failing to obey a summons to appear before the commission late last year.
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