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I have also got the picture that showed that the hair fell off, it was not cut. That  helped -\u003cbr/\u003ehere is hair, can you see it? This is how they got the poison because they sent it to  London as they said.\\\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Siphiwo's mother, Joyce Mtimkulu\u003cbr/\u003eNot all victims' relatives are co-operating with the Truth Commission - some like the  widow of Steve Biko are trying to have it overturned. \u003cbr/\u003eThey believe that the perpetrators of such crimes should be prosecuted and punished. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Mtimkulu's will go ahead with the process because they want to find out exactly  what happened. \u003cbr/\u003eBut they cannot predict how they will react to the information.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUND BITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\\\"We expect the truth will come out because we can't just forgive without having truth.  We must hear the truth, then we forgive -- if we can. It will now, even then, it will  depend. It will depend if we will forgive. If we will forgive we won't forget because bad  things happened.\\\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Joyce Mtimkulu\u003cbr/\u003eWhen no doctors could diagnose Mtimkulu's illness he was transferred to Groote  Schuur Hospital in Cape Town where neurologist Professor Frances Ames treated him. \u003cbr/\u003eWhen he told her his hair was falling out she suspected thallium poisoning. \u003cbr/\u003eLater she and a group of colleagues helped Mtimkulu's parents sue the police.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUND BITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\\\"You know it's one of those horror episodes. I've been in neurological practice for what,  40 years and that case has. the cold-bloodedness of it, the ruthlessness of it, and the  sheer sadism of it is something that sticks in my mind.\\\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Professor Frances Ames, Mtimkulu's Doctor\u003cbr/\u003eSouth Africa's Justice Minister, Dullah Omar was the architect of the legislation that  allowed for the Truth Commission. \u003cbr/\u003eIn terms of the law the Commission can grant amnesty to perpetrators of crimes  committed between 1960 and 1993. \u003cbr/\u003eThe only proviso is that they must make full disclosures of their crimes. \u003cbr/\u003eA team of Supreme Court judges have been seconded to the Commission's Amnesty  Committee to decide whether perpetrators should be let off.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUND BITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\\\"The work of the Truth Commission is directed towards the future. It's not dealing with  the past for the sake of dealing with the past, with a view to ensuring that human  conduct in the future will fall within accepted civilized standards.\\\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Justice Minister Dullah Omar\u003cbr/\u003eAnglican Archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner of 1984, Desmond Tutu is the  chairperson of the Truth Commission. \u003cbr/\u003eHe has been holding some public meetings to explain the work of the Truth  Commission to communities most affected by apartheid crimes. \u003cbr/\u003eBut the big task starts on Monday when he will begin an intensive two-year process of  listening to the horror stories of the apartheid era.\u003cbr/\u003eZwide Township and Cape Town, South Africa, 4-11th, April 1996\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide-shot street in Zwide township (Port Elizabeth 11/4/96)\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide-shot man emptying garbage with goat grazing in the foreground\u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid-shot woman and children walking down the road\u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid-shot man sweeping grass outside a house\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide-shot traffic in Zwide street\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide-shot exterior of the Mtimkulu house, parents Joyce and Sipho walk past      camera\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide-shot exterior Livingstone Hospital (Port Elizabeth 11/4/96)\u003cbr/\u003e8. Mid-shot South African flag on top of hospital entrance\u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid-shot Mtimkulu's parents walking towards the hospital\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid-shot exterior of Mtimkulu house (Zwide 11/4/96)\u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid-shot Siphiwo's sister Nozibele, 23, making tea, switches off the stove walks to        her parents and begins serving tea\u003cbr/\u003e12. Close-up Nozibele's hand pouring tea\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close-up black and white poster of Siphiwo Mtimkulu's face with the words       \"Detained - Missing\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Close-up Mrs Joyce Mtimkulu speaking as noted. Shot pulls down to close-up of   her hands opening a bag and taking out clumps of her son's hair, then pulls up to close- up of her face.\u003cbr/\u003e15. Close-up Joyce Mtimkulu's hands looking through photographs\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close-up black and white still of Mtimkulu in wheelchair with armed police officer in  the foreground\u003cbr/\u003e17. Close-up black and white still of Mtimkulu in hospital bed surrounded by friends\u003cbr/\u003e18. Close-up black and white still of Mtimkulu in a wheelchair with activists Di and Brian  Bishop standing behind her. Brian Bishop was later killed along with another white  activist, Molly Blackburn in a mysterious motor vehicle accident.\u003cbr/\u003e19. Close-up Joyce Mtimkulu speaking as noted\u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide-shot exterior Valkenberg Hospital (Cape Town 4/4/96)\u003cbr/\u003e21. Close-up sign reading: \"Valkenberg Hospital, Reduce Speed)\u003cbr/\u003e22. Mid-shot Professor Frances Ames writing at a desk\u003cbr/\u003e23. Close-up Professor Frances Ames speaking as noted\u003cbr/\u003e24. Exterior Civil and Service Club (Cape Town 10/4/96)\u003cbr/\u003e25. Wide-shot Justice Minister Dullah Omar seated at a table with journalists\u003cbr/\u003e26. Close-up Dullah Omar speaking as noted\u003cbr/\u003e27. Wide-shot exterior Uluntu community centre (Guguletu 9/4/96)\u003cbr/\u003e28. Mid-shot women dancing and singing in the Xhosa language: \"Hope is Coming.\"\u003cbr/\u003e29. Mid-shot Archbishop Desmond Tutu and woman dancing\u003cbr/\u003e30. Mid-shot man dancing and singing in the Xhosa language: \"Mercy is with us.\"\u003cbr/\u003e31. 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