A former member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's amnesty committee is defending President Thabo Mbeki's pardon of 33 Eastern Cape convicts last weekend. Grahamstown advocate Ntsikelelo ...

A weekly paper said on Sunday that the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) is to revive an earlier proposal to set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to address the long-standing issues of ...

The title of this film says it all, underscored by the opening images of fog and clouds, sky-darkening, stormy ones finally clearing to reveal the light of the sun. This, of course, being the visual ...

SEN. Patrick Leahy held a hearing last week to explore the idea of “a South African-style Truth and Reconciliation Commission” (TRC) to investigate allegedly illegal acts, including torture, by ...

People convicted of alleged political offences before June 16 1999 will be able to apply for a presidential pardon during a three-month ”window of opportunity” from January 15, President Thabo Mbeki ...

Khulumani, a support group for victims and survivors of apartheid, is suing the South African government in the Cape Town High Court. They are demanding that payments be made to thousands of victims ...

Legislation to be debated in parliament this week has the potential of reviving a mini-Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It provides for the establishment of committees with powers to grant amnesty ...

“President Thabo Mbeki should use the opening of the 2003 parliamentary session tomorrow to announce a program of reparations for victims and to renounce any possibility of a further amnesty,” the ...

Minister of Communications and Information Technology Rekha Sharma told the House of Representatives that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Bill had proposed to punish perpetrators in serious ...

PARBAT: Stakeholders and activists have suggested the Truth and Reconciliation Commission not to grant amnesty to the perpetrators of serious human rights violation taken place during the insurgency ...

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