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Our project centred on a simple miscarriage of justice; but no encounter with the law is ever simple. The story of the Six started as an account of a trial and its aftermath. Then the questions began: why were innocent people arrested and prosecuted? How much difference would a good defence team have made? Why did so many of the defendants and their witnesses perform abysmally in court? Why was the judge incapable of recording evidence accurately and reasoning dispassionately? Why did the appeal court twice fail to correct an injustice?
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ss 7–35 of the Republic of South Africa Act 1993; S. Kentridge, ‘Bills of Rights — The South African Experiment’. (1996) 112 Law Quarterly Review 237–62.
Sapa 5 August 1996, BBC Monitoring Service 7 August 1996. For the role of and background to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission see Azapo v. President of the Republic of South Africa 1996 (4) SA 671 (CC); P. Parker, ‘The Politics of Indemnities, Truth Telling and Reconciliation in South Africa: Ending Apartheid without Forgetting’, (1996) 17:1–2 Human Rights Law Journal 1–12.
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Parker, P., Mokhesi-Parker, J. (1998). Conclusion and Epilogue. In: In the Shadow of Sharpeville. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14617-8_16
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