Special Report Transcript Episode 42, Section 2, Time 14:21

Some crucial moments have passed. In the beginning of last year when you got to know the legislation you realized that it was unfairly weighed towards the perpetrators. No one did anything. You didn’t request to ask that the legislation be changed. After the first six weeks of hearings people were upset in this country about what had happened. There was not one request to the Afrikaans churches to ask them, won’t you come on Sunday and bring money if you want to. So that moment has passed. Now, tomorrow, this week, you want to compile a policy but you also don’t have the reports. Say for instance you say children whose parents have been killed should get bursaries. By next year you see that there’s 10 million. How can you make a recommendation this week if you don’t have the report? So it seems as if there’s a disjunction between what is an urgent need and the R & R Committee’s capacity to deal with that on time. // Of course work has been going on in terms of, when a hearing has taken place and we have identified people who need medical attention or need bursaries. All we were doing is to go to the already existing government structures to fast lane for bursaries and also facilitate… if that person needs a wheelchair, gets it on a fast lane than wait that long, or pensions. So we have worked, except that we haven’t gone public about it, but we have been engaged, day after day, with that process. We revisit, we assess the health conditions and the emotional conditions and then recommend people to go to the relevant organisation and assist them to get there.

Notes: Antjie Samuel; Reverend Mcebisi Xundu

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