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... in this segment is a documentary on a self defence unit from Tokoza, The Tambo Boys: Children and War. The second segment focuses on the health sector hearing held in Cape Town (17 - 18 June) that examined human rights violations committed by health practitioners and includes a report on ...

... suggests he was framed at the time of the incident because of his activities as a human rights lawyer. The following segment reports on the Legal Sector hearings held in Johannesburg (27 - 29 October) that looked at the role the legal profession played in sustaining apartheid. Attorney-Generals ...

included in this episode is coverage of a debate amongst medical professionals on whether there should be a separate Truth Commission for the health sector that would, address human rights abuses committed by health practitioners. The final segment focuses on five former CCB operatives from the ...

... accounts of the events that lead to the deaths of the three activists. The second segment focuses on the special hearing on the business sector held in Johannesburg (11 to 13 November). While majority Afrikaans speaking businesses acknowledged they benefited from preferential treatment ...

Legal Sector Special Hearing

Business Sector Special Hearing, Johannesburg

Truth Commissioner Wendy Orr; The Health Sector

The health sector and the TRC

Special Hearing, Health sector

Now to the legal sector hearing in Johannesburg. Without the complicity of the judicial system apartheid couldn’t have worked. The state needed the courts to apply apartheid laws and they did. This week’s hearing on the legal sector was packed with white men in dark suits. Some of them came to ...

But what happens beyond words? What is the way forward for our country to repair and address the economic wrongs of the past? One of the most concrete suggestions was that of Stellenbosch Economics Professor, Sampie Terreblanche. He suggested that a wealth tax be levied on all South Africans with ...

leadership is one of a nation’s most precious commodities. It is very rare for a nation to bring forth more than a handful of real leaders in one generation. Tonight we deal with two such leaders and both were murdered before they could play the role they were destined to, Steve Biko and Chris ...

An unexpected source of revenue has been suggested by the Afrikaanse Handelsinstitituut [Afrikaans Chamber of Commerce]. They proposed that the TRC and the government fund the reparation and rehabilitation process by dipping into the billions of rands in the South African security risk insurance ...

I was born in Boksburg, but have no memory of it, we moved to Pretoria when I was eighteen months old. My father is a Presbyterian minister, so I was brought up in a religious, spiritual household and although I am not a practicing Christian now I have a very strong sense of right and wrong and ...

At the end of the testimony on Duncan Village Truth Commissioner Bongani Finca insisted that those who treated victims of the massacre appear before the Truth Commission. We’ve all heard of the shameful role doctors have played in the deaths of activists like Steve Biko. But it is only now as the ...

Why did the legal sector fail us and how can we prevent such a failure from happening again? These questions were repeated over and over at the legal sector hearing, but the judges and magistrates who administered apartheid were not present to give us the answers.

We’ve had special hearings for the business sector, the legal profession, the health sector and the media. This past week our country’s religious leaders had the opportunity to examine their past roles before the Truth Commission and especially to look at the one thing religious leaders ought ...

The Truth Commission special hearings such as those on the health sector, the legal sector and the media have become a very important exercise; not only for the Commission who has to write a full report about our past, but for us as citizens. It gives us a chance to look at what went wrong in the ...

... and if we take the decade of the eighties over three and a half million potential job applicants, I think a 186 000 jobs were created in the formal sector of which by the way more than a 100 percent were in the state and there was a net loss in the private sector. So, I’m glad that and I’m ...

... part of the entire TRC’s work, but obviously the Reparation Committee has input to give on those issues as well, particularly around the health sector, prisons and education. ...