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    Zulu Love Letter tells the story of Thandi, an author in South Africa struggling with writer's block due to the anger and pain she still feels from being beaten and imprisoned as an anti-apartheid activist. She agrees to testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help the mother of a murdered activist recover her daughter's remains. Through this process, Thandi is able to lay to rest some of her anger and become closer to her own daughter. The film touches on the difficult aspect of forgiveness in South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy through the Truth and Reconciliation process, and how victims like Thandi represent criticisms that the process reminded people of past horrors instead of helping them forget.

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    Zulu Love Letter tells the story of Thandi, an author in South Africa struggling with writer's block due to the anger and pain she still feels from being beaten and imprisoned as an anti-apartheid activist. She agrees to testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help the mother of a murdered activist recover her daughter's remains. Through this process, Thandi is able to lay to rest some of her anger and become closer to her own daughter. The film touches on the difficult aspect of forgiveness in South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy through the Truth and Reconciliation process, and how victims like Thandi represent criticisms that the process reminded people of past horrors instead of helping them forget.

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    Zulu Love Letter tells the story of Thandi, an author in South Africa struggling with writer's block due to the anger and pain she still feels from being beaten and imprisoned as an anti-apartheid activist. She agrees to testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help the mother of a murdered activist recover her daughter's remains. Through this process, Thandi is able to lay to rest some of her anger and become closer to her own daughter. The film touches on the difficult aspect of forgiveness in South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy through the Truth and Reconciliation process, and how victims like Thandi represent criticisms that the process reminded people of past horrors instead of helping them forget.

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    Zulu Love Letter tells the story of Thandi, an author in South Africa struggling with writer's block due to the anger and pain she still feels from being beaten and imprisoned as an anti-apartheid activist. She agrees to testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help the mother of a murdered activist recover her daughter's remains. Through this process, Thandi is able to lay to rest some of her anger and become closer to her own daughter. The film touches on the difficult aspect of forgiveness in South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy through the Truth and Reconciliation process, and how victims like Thandi represent criticisms that the process reminded people of past horrors instead of helping them forget.

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    Thoughts on “Zulu Love Letter”

    By Courtlyn Roser-Jones

    Ramadan Suleman’s, Zulu Love Letter, tells the story of the pain and anger that still

    exists amongst the people of South African from apartheid. In the movie, Thandi, an author

    struggling from writers block is consumed by the rage she feels from being beaten and

    imprisoned while she was an activist during the struggle. Her daughter, Mangi, is deaf because of

    the beatings she withstood while pregnant with her.

    While at work, Thandi is contacted by the mother of a murdered activist. The woman is

    trying to recover her daughter’s remains so that she can give her a proper burial. She asks Thandi

    to help by testifying before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The Truth and

    Reconciliation Commission was a court-like body assembled in South Africa after the abolition of

    apartheid. In front of the commission, witnesses who were identified as victims of gross human rights

    violations were invited to give statements about their experiences. Perpetrators of violence also had to

    give testimony and request forgiveness and amnesty from prosecution. Thandi agrees to help the slain

    girl’s mother by doing so, although it puts her family in great danger. In the end of the movie,

    she helps put the murdered girl’s soul to rest and becomes closer to her daughter as she is able to

    lay to rest some of her anger as well.

    Zulu Love Letter touched on an important but difficult aspect of forgiveness that South

    Africa has been dealing with for years now. I am too young to remember what South Africa was

    like before democracy but as a reader of history books, I can think of very few instances where a

    nation that had struggled for so long, was able to formulate a peaceful revolution. South Africa
    was able to do this with their Truth and Reconciliation committees. However, Thandi represents

    a focal criticism of the Truth and Reconciliation process. This criticism is that that if amnesty for

    the offenders was to be granted, then the proceedings only helped to remind the people of South

    Africa of the horrors that had taken place in the past, when they were working hard to forget such things.

    In Zulu Love Letter I couldn’t help but sympathize for Thandi and other victims of the

    cruelty of apartheid. However, if the movie taught me anything it is that we as humans have the

    capacity to forgive even the most horrendous of acts. Thandi did not find peace until she had

    talked about what had happened to her. Her road to forgiveness was a long one but at the end of

    it she got back what she desperately needed, her daughter.

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