The aim is to lay bare the evils of the past and in so doing, make possible a better future.This week the commission rolled into Soweto for a special hearing on the historic 1976 student uprising, which sparked the violent countrywide confrontation between black children in school uniform and the mighty, military-backed apartheid state.MaKhuzwayo, now an MP in the ANC-led government, remembered 16 June 1976 as the day the security forces opened fire on a peaceful demonstration by children, and Soweto "caught fire". The children were protesting against "Bantu" education, an inferior curriculum introduced years before by the government "to ensure blacks remained slaves", and enforced lessons in Afrikaans.In the months and years that followed, she said, a generation of children had been brutalised and lost Today many were murderers and criminals. In the shadow of the huge wooden crucifix that dominates Soweto's Regina Mundi church, Ellen Khuzwayo, an elderly black activist, was asked how much she could forgive for the sake of the new South Africa. MaKhuzwayo, as the former teacher is known in the sprawling shanty township, closed her eyes and paused before answering the panel from the controversial Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In the brief period of silence, the largely black 200-strong audience, filling the front pews, strained to hear. "Sometimes I can forgive the National Party for what they did to us as adults, but I can never forgive what they did to our children," she said, her voice rising in anger."They never saw our children as children because the colour of their skin was different from their own ...

A Network South West spokeswoman said: "There were exceptional circumstances .. We were only too happy she got where she wanted to go.". Her ordeal started after she left her parents' home in Gosport, Hampshire, where she had attended her father's 60th birthday. The London-bound train broke down and passengers waited three hours before it limped into Woking, Surrey. Ms Duck had missed her coach connection and was left at London's Waterloo station. Ms Duck, a marine biologist, was offered hotel accommodation but she had told her boss she would be at work next day and said she could not be late.So rail chiefs arranged the cab.

"Everybody works on a shoestring here," he said.The Said Business School, which intends to compete with the best in the world, is scheduled to open in 1998 and will take 500 students, including 150 on MBA courses.Oxford's director of external relations, Dr Paul Flather, said the university had already raised pounds 8m and the new centre would not lead to donations being diverted from other sources.. Janette Duck was so furious when a train broke down that she hailed a London cab to take her almost 500 miles home - to Scotland. Rail officials agreed to pick up the pounds 847 bill after Ms Duck, 35, missed a coach because of the delay. The zoologist, Professor Richard Dawkins, is among those who object. He says the university, which is raising pounds 18m for the project from other sources, ought to consider whether the money would be better spent on other things. Protesters say the Bodleian Library might be a more deserving cause. Some argue that Oxford ought to stick to traditional subjects, rather than management studies.In a letter to the Independent, Prof Dawkins says the university might end up having to foot a substantial part of the bill."The recipients of magnanimous gifts ought to ask themselves whether they really want whatever the gift is for, rather than simply thinking they have been given a present of pounds 20m," he said last night.Alexander Murray, a medieval-history tutor from University College, will also vote against the plan when Oxford's congregation of dons considers it in November.The Bodleian was forced to close early because of staff shortages and teaching posts in subjects such as classics had been frozen because of a lack of funds, he said.

Oxford University dons are split over the university's biggest ever donation; some say they will vote against accepting pounds 20m for a new business school from the controversial Saudi businessman, Wafic Said. But the leadership has been encouraged by Unison's motion backing shadow chancellor Gordon Brown's review of child benefit for 16-18-year-olds.The Unison motion also accepts the breaking of the link between the basic state pension and average earnings, calling for it to be up-rated "at least in line with the Retail Prices Index, with the encouragement of wider second-tier pension coverage" so that incomes will be above the state pension.Blair dream team, p15. Several motions to Labour's annual conference in Blackpool, to be published tomorrow, have criticised the lack of consultation within on policy changes. Leftwingers had accused whips of manipulating the 46 proxies, but the source said that 36 of them were supportive of the leadership, and the advice was to "vote for the entire slate".Following recent reforms, each MP is entitled to cast only one proxy ballot on behalf of an absent colleague, so preventingwhips accumulating blank proxies. Supporters of left-wing challenger, Ann Clwyd, are curious about the decision by Blair critic George Galloway (Glasgow Hillhead) to hand his proxy vote to deputy chief whip Nick Brown. One Westminster source last night saidit did not seem like a free and fair election.Mr Blair's front-bench team is expected to see limited changes in the run-up to the election, which will probably be held in May.