Special Report Transcript Episode 13, Section 5, Time 19:27

Doctors who were involved and work with survivors, with ex-detainees, with ex-political prisoners felt that we really needed to do something about our past because South Africa has an extraordinary past, a past that we’re not all proud of, a past that has made us in many cases a pariah of the medical profession around the world and which has been very painful. Yet at the same time we’re going through a process of national reconciliation. We see the Truth and Reconciliation Commission constituted on a political level to try to address some of the painful experiences, the abuses of the past. And for us it seemed quite obvious that the medical profession needed to do something similar, something in parallel or something analogous.

Notes: Dr Lesley London (Community Health, UCT)

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