THANDO and MANDISA return from the TRC Amnesty Hearings. THANDO, walking in front, opens the kitchen door. MANDISA follows — dressed even more stunningly. She looks very upset.

THANDO: Hello Tata. No sign of him. Anybody home? [Looking into Sipho's room.] That's strange he's always here by now.

MANDISA [opening a bottle of whisky which was in the duty free bag]: Keep close tabs on him as much as he does on you? Do you?

THANDO: It's just that he is a creature of habit and you get used to people like that. [Pause.] Why are you so quiet? You hardly said a thing in the car on the way back.

MANDISA [pouring herself a shot of whisky]: No, I am thinking.

THANDO: The hearings make you do that sometimes.

MANDISA: That's all there is to it? No more. We can all go home. All is forgiven. Somebody died for God's sake. Someone is guilty.

THANDO: You don't understand. That's how we chose to do it. That's the option we took.

MANDISA: Then make me understand. Pretend I am an idiot. Explain it to me. A man sends a parcel bomb to two women and a child. It blows their guts out and he is not guilty of any crime.

THANDO: It's not as simple as that. There are conditions to be met.

MANDISA: Damn you, Thando. This man murdered Ruth First in cold blood. In the most cowardly way. Just because Joe Slovo was considered Public Enemy No. 1 by the apartheid government. A terrorist as they called him. Who the fuck gave Craig Williamson the right to murder his wife? And what did Mrs Schoon and her daughter do? How could those two women and a child overthrow the white racist government of South Africa? Remember what the lawyer said of him. He's South Africa's super spy. South Africa's secret agent abroad, with a license to kill, whom in his illustrious career, could only boast of killing two women and a child.

THANDO: Mandisa, we had a choice. We could have gone for revenge. We could have gone for Nuremberg-style trials but how would that have made us different from them?

MANDISA: For what in return?

THANDO: Peace, stability, reconciliation.

MANDISA: You mean international reconciliation. They were so dying for international approval that they sold out.