11.   The commission has submitted dozens of documents suggesting the State Security Council, which Botha headed, sanctioned killing black liberation fighters.

12.   Transformed from liberation fighter to government minister, Zuma and her colleagues still display the combative political style that marked the struggle for survival under the onslaught of apartheid.

13.   The South African government Wednesday declared Robben Island, once the prison home of President Nelson Mandela and other black liberation fighters, a national monument.

14.   Mandela has promised to address the grievances of the former liberation fighters and has been critical of the slow pace of integration.

15.   The leading countries of the West were supporting the apartheid regime and giving them resources to prevent the liberation fighters from winning.