But it is more likely that future historians will note that, for all its shortcomings, it unearthed a sizeable chunk of truth about the country's awful past, and did so on a budget barely large enough to buy every South African a Coke.
The families of those killed and injured have for two decades battled to get to thetruth about what happened on that awful day -- and to overturn what the independent panel found were "strenuous attempts" by police to deflect responsibility for the disaster to Liverpool fans by falsely claiming they were drunk and aggressive.
The president of Iran, who must have an awful lot to do, can't seem to go more than a week without ridiculing thetruth of the Holocaust, and holding it responsible for the world's troubles.