Another leaked extract from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report, due to be handed to President Mandela tomorrow, has attracted wide interest and added to the drama building around its release to the media soon after the formal handing-over ceremony.
The target of the second leak is the Pan Africanist Congress or PAC, which like the ANC is accorded the status of a liberation movement.
The PAC underground army is found by the TRC, as the commission is popularly known, to have deliberately targeted civilians, particularly during its Year of the Great Storm, a campaign launched in 1993 after the decree outlawing it had been rescinded by the then President F.W. de Klerk in the interests of a negotiated settlement.
Another indictment levelled against the PAC is fratricide: the killing of its own members who were opposed to its current policies and/or who were suspected of being police spies.
These negative findings come after the leaking of an earlier extract sharply critical of the African National Congress for allowing the distinction between military and civilian targets to become blurred and for torturing and even executing its own cadres who were suspected, unproven, of being "enemy agents".
The TRC's criticism of the PAC, and more particularly of the ANC, has surprised many observers, in view of recurring allegations that the TRC is biased in favour of the liberation movement generally, and the ANC especially.
Its criticisms of these predominantly black organisations are, however, prefaced by a declaration that apartheid was a "crime against humanity" and a recognition that the liberation movement conducted a legitimate struggle or "just war" against the former government.
The Freedom Front leader, Gen Constand Viljoen, is openly sceptical of the TRC's criticisms. He believes the leaks, on the eve of the release of the report, are too convenient. He sees them as an attempt to offset allegations that its long and expensive deliberations amount to little more than a political witch-hunt on behalf of the ANC, with Afrikaner notables who served in the old government as its prime targets.
The Inkatha Freedom Party, which frequently referred to the TRC as the Truth Revision Commission, has not escaped criticism. A special notice has been served on its leader, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, informing him that an adverse finding has been made against him and the movement he leads.
He is alleged to have established self-protection units in the early 1990s with the express purpose of derailing the pending election. He adamantly denies the charge, accusing the TRC of trying to "rewrite history to fit its political agenda."
The handing over of the report to Mr Mandela will not mark the end of the TRC's mandate. Its amnesty committee still has scores of amnesty applications to hear. That aside, the committee has another important unfinished task: to deliver verdicts on several controversial applications.