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Transcripts for Section 6 of Episode 11
| Time | Summary | | | 34:36 | The Committee of the Truth Commission that handles amnesty applications is now fully operational. And with the Dirk Coetzee controversy it is also very much in the news. Mister Justice Mall explains the amnesty process. | Full Transcript | | 34:49 | I regard my Committee to be performing a quasi-judicial function where we weigh the evidence that has been adduced before us. We know that we are not approaching this as we would approach a trial, we don’t have the advocarial system in operation here. So, we take part in the investigation, we call for information that we think might assist us or might assist an applicant and we weigh this. Now, we don’t take in to account for example when a man says I’m sorry for what I did. You know, a man may come and say I’m sorry for what I did, and then maybe very little else he might be able to say to justify his offence. Well, that admission that he is sorry and he is apologetic may well be the kind of thing that he’d do if he appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but before the Amnesty Committee we’d like to know what his acts were, what were the political objectives, how were his acts related to a political objective. And if we think this is the kind that meets ...more | Full Transcript | | 36:12 | In order to succeed what you need possibly is the stick of the courts and the carrot of the Amnesty Committee or of the Commission. And these two ought to be held in tension. The moment you drop one or the other then I think you’re in trouble, in terms of searching for the truth. Because a whole lot of people aren’t going to be arrested. There’s no evidence. We are hoping that those very people, amongst them will be those that will come and give us the truth which we never would have discovered. | Full Transcript |
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