Special Report Transcript Episode 31, Section 1, Time 00:04

Tonight we bring you a special documentary on the people of the KwaZulu-Natal midlands. // We also have a conversation with the Truth Commission Chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu on truth, on reconciliation and the progress of the Truth Commission. // … you are very lucky, you are lucky that we don’t want to treat you as you treated us, you are lucky that despite the kind of things that you’ve done to us we are willing to stretch out our hands in reconciliation. Please don’t spurn this opportunity. // But we start with the Human Rights Violations Committee’s last hearings for 1996 held in Denilton in Mpumalanga. Bantustans for black South Africans were an essential building block of grand apartheid, but the displaced Ndebele people in the area north east of Pretoria did not fit in with the National Party social engineering plans. They were eventually dumped in a homeland called KwaNdebele and by the early 1980s plans were advanced to grant it independence. But the homeland made little economic sense and the government decided to add the Pedi speaking area of Moutse to KwaNdebele. This is the story of violence and counter violence caused by these decisions in the mid eighties.

Notes: Max du Preez; Archbishop Tutu

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