Special Report Transcript Episode 85, Section 3, Time 43:21

I made the arrangement that when I join the Truth Commission … I must be in the pulpit on Sunday, every Sunday. And it gives me strength. That is my basis of the strength. I ... the TRC things, I get tired, but I know that there is a spring from which I’m going to draw when it becomes Sunday, when I meet the church people with their prayers and song and worship. You see these are revelations within the TRC ... for these stories to be revealed. That is why, though we don’t like amnesty, most of us, we become sympathetic with it because we see that if there were no amnesty, we would have not heard these stories, we would not have had the exhumations of the tombs. I remember one mother from Port Shepstone who had her son exhumed, she says that you know when they came back from exile, I was waiting that my son is coming back and all this time I’ve been waiting. When I saw the bus, people getting down at the bus stop, I used to look and say oh my son will be coming. When I heard a knock at the door, I say that maybe that is my son. And she said now I know that my son is no more, is killed. That I can get the bones and go and bury it, give it a decent burial, it does satisfy me because I can never bring him back again.

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