Special Report Transcript Episode 86, Section 3, Time 17:07

It is a retraumatisation of a victim when perpetrators don’t speak the truth and when perpetrators speak the truth sincerely, but not only speak the truth but demonstrate a sense of guilt, a sense of remorse, it is respecting the victim’s pain. I guess that this is why the victims often are disarmed by the sincerity of the perpetrator and feel ready to forgive the perpetrator.

Notes: Pumula Gobodo-Madikizela (TRC Committee member)

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