Special Report Transcript Episode 46, Section 5, Time 16:32

‘I see the TRC as a lion without teeth because there is nothing being done to perpetrators, so it has no importance at all. It is a waste of money because the victims end up nowhere.’ // ‘TRC brought more light; it revealed what the nation was not going to know.’ // ‘It’s quite good to bring out all the evils of the past so that we can move on from here.’ // ‘Well I still haven’t understood the Truth Commission process.’ // ‘It started off initially as a good idea but it’s dragging on a bit too long now.’ // ‘I feel that it is not balanced because it does not take the fight of the Africans seriously because our fight was not based on apartheid but on the land. So, I do not see the TRC achieving any of our ideals. It favours the whites more than us.’ // ‘I don’t see it being solved, I see a lot of things being dug out of cupboards and a lot of people going through all the pain and the anger again and I don’t see where the truth… I see the truth part of it but I don’t see the reconciliation part of it.’ // ‘In many ways it’s been a good thing in South Africa. It’s been a way of a search for truth about a lot of things that have been hidden in the past and I think a lot of bad things happened, and I think it’s a good thing that it should get exposed, people should know what happened.’ // ‘I think there are a number of issues that come out of it and one is that from a psychological point of view it has a very good aspect in terms of mental health and that is that it takes some of the skeletons out of the closet.’ // ‘For me it’s legally right and morally wrong according to my own point of view, because people who are the victims of circumstances in fact they do …whether they can forgive but they can’t forget.’

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