A Common Purpose

Andrea Durbach, a Sydney resident since 1989 and currently director of the Australian Human Rights Centre, returns to South Africa to meet her clients from the landmark Upington trial. In 1985, when Apartheid was at its most violent, a black policeman was burnt to death and 25 people were convicted of his murder; 14 were sentenced to hang. The dramatic battle for justice - as told by Durbach, Independent journalist John Carlin and the accused - and the subsequent Truth and Reconciliation hearings are both revelatory and inspirational