khulumani: a support group. a social movement. a strong voice.

In the wake of Adrian Vlok's footwashing apology, it has emerged that a growing number of black former apartheid security police agents are approaching a support group formed to help perpetrators of atrocities to seek atonement. Marjorie Jobson, acting director of the Khulumani Support Group, said most of those who contacted her organisation were channelling their guilt by making the first steps to reconcile with survivors and their families. Many were concentrated in the East Rand.

The struggle against apartheid created many heroes, whose sacrifices then have now become their legacy. Many of the "liberation before education" generation today find themselves unemployable and living in poverty. Shirley Gunn, of the Human Rights Media Centre, said many people who played a tremendous role in defeating apartheid had now been abandoned. Their stories have not been forgotten though and will be told in an exhibition called "Breaking the Silence: A Luta Continua" at the Iziko Slave Lodge in Adderley Street.

Bishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, the former chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), says he is disappointed at the amount of reparation given to victims of the apartheid government.