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"Seven boys left home one morning for work - and they never returned." Those seven boys, later referred to as the Gugulethu Seven, turned up on television that night dead. The news labelled them terrorists and their mothers had to watch their dead children being dragged on the ground in front of the world to see. As I purchase my ticket for the award-winning documentary Long Nights Journey Into Day on four stories, out of the thousands that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission(TRC) uncovered, I ask the ticket seller a question. It's a question that has become a bit of a hobby actually, when watching African films. "How many people have come to see it?" He tells me that there aren't that many and then he proceeds to say that more black people have come to see it than white people. "They should be the ones seeing it." I say. He concurs.