The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has taken a bold step in its final report by acknowledging some of its own failings and shortcomings. The Truth Commission admits that it failed to call certain key actors, especially IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi. It failed to make significant inroads into the post-1990 violence. It also failed to establish the complicity of local governments, universities, state-funded research bodies and former homelands like Venda, Lebowa and Bophuthatswana. The Truth Commission says its investigations into Military Intelligence and special forces were conducted too late for adequate follow-up. But it was also severely restricted from accessing military archives and classified records with the creation of the Defence Force nodal point. The truth commissioners shared some of these and other feelings of failure and regret with Angie Kapelianis.

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windows of history - reflective and self-analytical flashbacks keep open rather than close the doors of the truth commission

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