Special Report Transcript Episode 86, Section 4, Time 43:16

Indeed. I must really confess that I didn’t know what actually lay ahead of my appointment. I thought it was formidable challenge that one would be faced with and indeed that proved to be the case. But it also proved to be one of those historical moments that one should necessarily be involved with. I think the amnesty process is a fundamental process to the truth discovery. Without the process of amnesty we would not have been able to come with all these revelations. I think many of the victims who have appeared before the Amnesty Committee have displayed a very noble notion of willingness to forgive because they have at least been acknowledged as victims and they have been acknowledged by the perpetrators. And that was I think a fundamental void which but for the TRC would not have been filled and which would have not enabled this country to chart its way forward.

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