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Triumph Over Terror (series): Where Truth Lies: South Africa

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Producer(s)	New Vision Production
Director(s)	Mark J. Kaplan
Runtime	30 min
Format(s)	video
Language(s)	English
Youth Media	no

Film Description

In South Africa in 1982, student leader Siphiwo Mtimkulu and his friend, Topsy Madaka, were shot and burned by the feared Security Police under the former apartheid government. In 1995, a group of top Security Police officers got a court order blocking Mtimkulu's family from presenting evidence to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, threatening to undermine the whole process. The officers finally applied for amnesty. Filmmaker Mark Kaplan documented the case for three years and claims that the story is a testimony to the best and worst of which mankind is capable.