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 concentration is on the victims and the survivors of apartheid .  We hope that people coming before the Amnesty Committee will be the ones who are going to provide us with most of the information we require.
 I appeal to those who may be aware they were perpetrators willingly or involuntarily to respond to the incredible generosity and magnanimity of victims with a matching generosity.  Don't try to do the impossible. Don't try to defend the indefensible.  There will be no gloating.  If some, like the Dominie whose letter I read in Cape Town could get up and say "sorry", they would be overwhelmed by the response of the victims, of the survivors, of this foul, of this evil, of this vicious system.  
 I am grateful to have received a copy of a resolution taken by the Dutch Reformed Churches' body between the sessions of its conferences where it says,
"We accept that some of the perpetrators and victims of gross human rights violations come from the ranks of the churchgoers, the Dutch Reformed church-goers.  We offer you our assistance and to those who apply to appear in front of the Commission regarding these applications.  We accept responsibility to assist these people by means of counselling and to help them to be healed from the trauma of the past, and to offer the reconciliation that Christ has offered us.  We are appealing to all our churches and church bodies by means of its official mouthpiece to assist this counselling service with devotion and commitment".
... to the NG Kerk for that.  
 The Media, as I have observed before, have excelled 
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