1.   And he likens the South Africans who now deny supporting apartheid to the post-World War II Germans who denied casting their votes for the Nazi party.

2.   Critics accused him of supporting apartheid.

3.   Speaking recently in Houghton, the largely white suburb where he lives, he told the audience that they had made their first serious mistake by supporting apartheid.

4.   Most are whites who supported apartheid, a system the Netherlands government and people found despicable.

5.   Police Commissioner Gen. Johan van der Merwe announced Tuesday he would resign, giving President Nelson Mandela the chance to appoint a replacement who never supported apartheid.

6.   The apology campaign asks whites to sign a declaration saying they actively or passively supported apartheid and owe it to South African blacks to overcome its legacy.

7.   The force is still regularly accused of failing in its duties, chiefly because of the continued presence of officers believed to support apartheid.