It is the twenty-second year of Nelson Mandelas imprisonment and a country is gripped with civil unrest. In the small, conservative town of Upington, in South Africas Northern Cape, a black policeman is beaten to death and his body burned during a riot. Twenty-five black citizens, from teenage boys to an elderly couple, are all accused of the same crime: the murder of Lucas Sethwala, with a common purpose. After a two-year trial, the Upington 25 are convicted of his murder; and a year later, fourteen of them are sentenced ...
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It is the twenty-second year of Nelson Mandelas imprisonment and a country is gripped with civil unrest. In the small, conservative town of Upington, in South Africas Northern Cape, a black policeman is beaten to death and his body burned during a riot. Twenty-five black citizens, from teenage boys to an elderly couple, are all accused of the same crime: the murder of Lucas Sethwala, with a common purpose. After a two-year trial, the Upington 25 are convicted of his murder; and a year later, fourteen of them are sentenced to death.
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