Special Report Transcript Episode 71, Section 4, Time 33:50

Our policy has five components to it and we really would like people to see it within the context of those five components and not focus simply on the money, which I think what has been happening over the last eighteen months. // ‘Urgent Interim Relief’ // This is for people who can’t wait for the whole process to go through Parliament and be approved and they will receive immediate assistance. Those regulations are with the Department of Justice and we are hoping that by November, December this year we will be able to start assisting people in urgent need. // ‘Individual Reparation Grant R17 000 – R23 000 (over six years)’ // This obviously is a type of pension payment, which we hope will enable people to live a dignified life and to meet the needs which they have expressed, whether these be medical or educational or housing. So that they themselves can decide what their needs are and use this money to assist them to meet those needs. // ‘Symbolic reparation’ // The third component is symbolic reparation and in that we are looking nationally at things like days of remembrance, services, national monuments, memorials and then locally at perhaps changing street names or clinic names, local community services and those sorts of things. Included in symbolic reparation would also be for instance clearing people’s criminal records, symbolic reburials of people who’ve disappeared, tomb stones, head stones and those sorts of things. // ‘Community Reparation’ // The fourth component is community reparation and we’re looking there at not only the victims of gross human rights violations but at the victims of apartheid as a whole. And we are placing on the agenda of a number of ministries like welfare, health, housing, education the types of programmes which we believe need to be put into place in order for communities to be rehabilitated. // ‘Institutional Reform’ // And then finally there are the overall recommendations for institutional reform which form part of the entire TRC’s work, but obviously the Reparation Committee has input to give on those issues as well, particularly around the health sector, prisons and education.

Notes: Dr Wendy Orr (Truth Commissioner)