Special Report Transcript Episode 86, Section 3, Time 12:34

In families and among friends conflicts are resolved and emotional wounds are healed when the wrongdoer admits their wrong and says sorry. The Truth Commission’s mandate is to look into South Africa’s recent violent history so that the terrible wounds of the past can be healed, but the Act guiding the TRC does not ask the perpetrators of murder and torture express remorse for what they have done. To get amnesty you don’t have to be sorry. No one has reminded us more sharply of that than Clive Derby-Lewis when he applied last year for amnesty for the murder of Chris Hani.

Notes: Chris Hani’s funeral

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