Special Report Transcript Episode 80, Section 5, Time 35:25

And out of the blue one day in 1995 Barney Pityana phoned me and said Wendy can the Human Rights Commission nominate you for the TRC? And I said Barney I’d be honoured, but surely there are other people who are far more appropriate and suitable. And he said, no we think you should be on it so I said fine and I forgot about it quite frankly. I really thought there was very little chance that I’d get on. My life was finally on an even keel, my plans never work out, and I forgot about it. And about four weeks later I got a telephone call asking me to come for an interview and I sat down and thought about it. And my attitude quite literally was this is who I am, this is what I am, this is what I’ve done and this is what I’ll talk about and if that’s what the country wants and needs, well this is me.

Notes: Wendy Orr

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