For example, the creation and terms of reference of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was launched one year later.
But the crack legal team is currently engaged in one of its toughest battles yet – a titanic struggle to protect what the ANC sees as the dignity of current president Jacob Zuma.
At the heart of the issue is a recent marketed painting by local pop artist Brett Murray, which depicts the 70-year-old in Stalinist style, with his phallus prominently on display.
The Times newspaper in London points out that the image – called The Spear – has ‘hit a raw nerve’, not least because Mr Zuma was once acquitted of a rape charge and is a devout polygamist, having just got hitched to wife number six. Already vandals have attacked the work and the ANC’s lawyers are attempting to force the Goodman Gallery to mothball the painting and to prevent newspapers from reprinting the image. The gallery has described the legal efforts as blatant ‘censorship’.
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