Successive ANC-led governments have been criticised by some for prioritising national reconciliation ahead of justice for victims
The violence, poverty, and oppression left deep psychological scars on future leaders, driving some to channel their trauma into a relentless pursuit of justice and equality
South Africa and Colombia attempted to deal with a violent past through telling truths about human rights violations – even if both processes faltered one some measures
The hardest part of reckoning is the reckoning and where the archbishop is resented it is not for the ways in which the TRC failed but those in which it succeeded and brought an unfathomable past into a flawed present, writes Elisha Kunene.
‘The Arch’ never stopped joking as he fought oppression locally and globally, writes Thembisa Fakude.
Nobel Peace Prize winner and TRC chair hailed by President Cyril Ramaphosa as a ‘patriot without equal’
The reopened inquest into the death in detention of Dr Hoosen Haffejee in 1977 has heard that the “pliant” magistrate at the original inquest, Trevor Blunden, ignored evidence that he was badly assaulted to exonerate the security police torturers who killed him. Haffejee, a Pietermartizburg-born dentist, died in detention at the Brighton Beach police station […]
Author and academic Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela spoke to Nicolene de Wee about the government’s failure to heal a broken country
The NPA and the Hawks are allocating people and resources to investigate apartheid-era crimes that have gone unpunished, but not everyone is altogether happy about it.
The former Security Branch officer is asking the SCA for a permanent stay of appeal in the prosecution of the murder of Ahmed Timol in 1971
These 18 stories from members of MK’s Ashley Kriel detachment teach the meaning of sacrifice
An interview with Wilhelm Verwoerd raises a conundrum about how to grapple with our past
If South Africa is neither hopeful nor tragic, what posture should we take in relation to the future?
In a speech to graduates at Rhodes University, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela said that reviewing accepted wisdoms can help to repair the past
The NPA has denied that it played any role in delaying the prosecution of apartheid-era crimes, but concedes politicians interfered in its decisions
A truth and reconciliation commission has begun to investigate alleged rights abuses during the 22-year-long rule of Yahya Jammeh
Women remain the wallpaper of history and are daily denied a voice in our patriarchal society
Dimitri Tsafendas, the man who killed the architect of apartheid, was an enigmatic ‘revolutionary’ with a ‘deep social conscience’
#FeesMustFall students convicted of crimes ask for a truth and reconciliation amnesty process
It’s almost impossible to talk about Hani without mentioning the two men responsible for his death
Let Mam’ Winnie rest in peace
‘Terreblanche wrote with a deep idealism in a country frequently with the highest levels of inequality’
A people’s tribunal on economic crimes in South Africa has heard submissions on how big corporations evaded the TRC
Readers write in about KZN not being a bantustan, and the sad state of Africa
‘It would be foolhardy to suggest that discussions about corruption in South Africa are race neutral’
Post-1994 political meddling, lack of will and lost evidence have stymied apartheid-era prosecutions
Private investigator Frank Dutton insists that previous investigations into Ahmed Timol’s death amounted to a "cover up of the truth".
Ashley Kriel’s story is re-told by Nadine Cloete in Action Kommandant, her film that’s screening at the 2016 Encounters documentary film festival.
Twenty years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission began its work to heal South Africa, 926 people continue to await a presidential pardon.
Controversial KwaZulu-Natal Inkatha Freedom Party leader and MPL Phillip Powell was tricked into revealing the large cache of arms.
One of his former classmates described the young Philip Powell as a collector of Nazi paraphernalia "obsessed with warfare".
KwaZulu-Natal’s 14-year civil war is set to remain the single largest gaping hole in the TRC’s "big picture" of apartheid-era atrocities.