Is there life after the TRC? This question has repeatedly been asked of those intimately involved in translating the story of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission since 1996. From the men and women who have shuttled between all the country’s major languages to interpret thousands of emotional stories and conflicting perspectives of the apartheid era. From the journalists who have criss-crossed the country almost every single week to reflect those personal accounts in words, pictures, voices and sounds. And from the truth commissioners who have had to keep the process glued together and make sense of it for everyone. Angie Kapelianis asked the truth commissioners what they planned to do with their lives after South Africa’s history of gross human rights abuses had been chronicled.

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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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