TRC Final Report

Volume 6

Section 6

Part CEO_Report

Subsection 3

OPERATIONAL AND MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

10. Some of the day-to-day management activities and operations of the Commission included:

• research activities, including the completion of the analysis emanating from amnesty applications, the political context to these applications, and matters arising from the work of the HRVC and RRC;
• investigative activities, including the in-depth investigations of amnesty application s ;
• p reparation for and finalisation of findings regarding 21 000 deponent statements by the HRV C ;
• summarising the contents of 21 000 deponent statements for inclusion in the report to the President ;
• analysis of more than 7000 amnesty applications;
• p reparation of more than 2500 amnesty applications for public hearings by the Amnesty Committee;
• scheduling the public hearing of more than 2500 amnesty applications;
• logistical and security arrangements pertaining to 255 public amnesty hearings, totalling approximately 1632 hearing days;
• providing witness protection to amnesty applicants and to witnesses at amnesty hearings;
• recording the hearings of the Amnesty Committee, simultaneous interpretations and transcription services;
• further development of a coding framework to systematise the processing and capturing, cross - referencing, cleaning and analysing of data;
• archiving and safekeeping of more than 3000 cubic metres of written documentation, tape and video recordings;
• p reparation for and complete assessments of approximately 21 000 victims of g ross human rights violations by the single remaining Commissioner of the R R C ;
• facilitating the payment of urgent interim reparation to approximately 17 000 victims by the President’s Fund;
• attempting to establish the whereabouts or correct addresses of almost 3000 victims of gross human rights violations;
• human resources - related activities, including streamlining the Commission’s office layouts, structures, staff orientations, development of skills and the provision of service certificates and references for exiting staff ;
• financial activities, including the development and implementation of measures aimed at effecting savings, budget forecasts, negotiations and allocations and the preparation and presentation of audited financial statements;
• attending to a constant flow of enquiries re g a rding the plight of victims and the issue of reparation;
• legal activities, including assistance to the various Committees and dealing with legal challenges to the Commission and the Amnesty Committee;
• media liaison and communication;
• safety and security of physical and intellectual assets, processes, activities and members of the Commission;
• audits, evaluations and appraisals of the Commission’s activities, quality of work, staff performances, efficiency and productivity, and updates of registers, files, reports, financial statements and books, and progress in general;
• accounting and reporting to parliamentary committees on the Commission’s activities, processes and pro g re s s ;
• liaising with governmental departments with regard to issues emanating from the activities and processes of the Commission;
• financial and other support to the Commission by international donors;
• addressing and briefing international conferences, international visitors and interested parties on the functions, activities and processes of the Commission, and
• staff ‘roll-out’ and close-down plans for the Commission.