Special Report Transcript Episode 73, Section 6, Time 53:20

I have never been taken through what I call an emotional pendulum swing from one extreme to the other. On Friday I had been feeling distressed, not so much for myself because I have always maintained that Sibaya was one of very many tools that were being used to discredit certainly me, but I always want to look at the bigger picture to discredit the TRC process. So, I was distressed and sad, because here was a person who was being used, but I also was angry; angry that I had failed, certainly from the perspective of certain media coverage of that event, to convey to them that I was innocent. And the hollow feeling that I felt was like the feeling I used to feel whenever I had lost a case, defending a client who I knew was innocent, but I had failed to convince the … of his innocence. That was the feeling I felt. But from that feeling of dejection there was the feeling of vindication, vindication in the sense that my peers in the Commission, after I had addressed them for one and a half hours, were all unanimous in the view that they have implicit faith not only in my innocence but in my having to continue to do the work of the TRC without having to take a leave of absence. What Sibaya then did after my colleagues had taken that decision was a cherry on top of the cake.

Notes: Dumisa Ntsebeza

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