Special Report Transcript Episode 82, Section 1, Time 00:16

Hello. Welcome to the Special Report. There were no hearings of the Truth Commission this past week. Instead, we focus on three issues very relevant to the Truth Commission process. We examine the concept of evil, we look at the death and destruction the South African armed forces had caused in their raids across our borders and we try and understand what the whole idea of reconciliation really means. The word ‘evil’ has been used a lot during the last two years of the Truth Commission. People listen to testimony of torture and executions, shake their heads and say. This is pure evil. But what is evil? Was the apartheid system evil? Or were the people who had to enforce the system evil? Are some people inherently evil or did they merely do evil things because of circumstances? Are we all potentially evil?

Notes: Max du Preez

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