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Members of the ANC give testimony in Cape Town about human rights abuses committed during apartheid. (File photograph by Gallo Images/ Oryx Media Archive).
ADAM SITZE

Reject commissions of inquiry, the poisoned colonial chalices that do not deliver justice

No matter the quality of the work inquiries do, they are designed to create a simulacrum of accountability, of justice. They appease the public

  • Verne Harris
5 min read