| |
Content
A listing of transcripts of the dialogue and narrative of this section.
|
Structure
The list provides the transcript, info about the text, and links to references contained in the text.
|
Special Report
Transcripts for Section 5 of Episode 46
| Time | Summary | | | 16:09 | The Truth Commission process is not about the Commissioners or the politicians. It belongs to the citizens of this country. While we were looking back at the Truth Commission’s first year we took our cameras to the streets, the townships, the suburbs and the shopping malls and we asked ordinary people what they thought of the process. | Full Transcript | | 16:32 | ‘I see the TRC as a lion without teeth because there is nothing being done to perpetrators, so it has no importance at all. It is a waste of money because the victims end up nowhere.’ // ‘TRC brought more light; it revealed what the nation was not going to know.’ // ‘It’s quite good to bring out all the evils of the past so that we can move on from here.’ // ‘Well I still haven’t understood the Truth Commission process.’ // ‘It started off initially as a good idea but it’s dragging on a bit too long now.’ // ‘I feel that it is not balanced because it does not take the fight of the Africans seriously because our fight was not based on apartheid but on the land. So, I do not see the TRC achieving any of our ideals. It favours the whites more than us.’ // ‘I don’t see it being solved, I see a lot of things being dug out of cupboards and a lot of people going through all the pain and the anger again and I don’t see where the truth… I see the truth ...more | Full Transcript | | 18:27 | The issue of amnesty raised many eyebrows and controversial opinions. // ‘We give them amnesty so what they can live here with these crimes in them and we have to rely on their conscience to bring about some sort of change within them, but if they had the guts and the facilities to do these things in the first place, how do we ever know that their conscience is ever going to get the better of them and know that they’re going to have true amnesty.’ // ‘No, no, no. Why can a person who has murdered a person get amnesty? Why? Why can a person who has done wrong to the people get amnesty? That is not fair.’ // ‘They don’t deserve it, because they killed. The Commandment says ‘thou shall not kill,’ but they killed. I’m created by God, but not by man like myself who turn himself into my own God. ‘Thou shall not kill.’’ // ‘If you do something wrong, you do it wrong. You should serve; you should take responsibility for your actions.’ // ‘You know what I say ...more | Full Transcript |
|
|
>
