The first week of Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in East London was an exceptional one in South Africa. Nothing like the miracle election of April 1994. Nothing like the Government of National Unity. And nothing like South Africa’s unifying sport victories. Mid-April 1996 was a week in which the country and its people came face to face with their past for the first time. Darren Taylor and Zola Ntutu reflect on the dominant themes that surfaced in the first four days of the Truth Commission’s probe into gross human rights abuses during the apartheid era.

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Gifts of justice, mercy and compassion 

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Wounded people

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In session

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Witness to great courage 

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Dance unshackled - letters read by Desmond Tutu

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bones of memory - experiences and memories lay bare the pain and bravery of apartheid's victims

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