Special Report Transcript Episode 82, Section 5, Time 53:03

As the life of the Truth Commission comes to an end we have to ask ourselves what role its activities have played in reconciling our nation. Throughout this programme you have seen amazing moments at hearings where people reached out to each other, forgave each other, embraced each other, moments of conciliation. But so many people who appeared before the Commission have said that simply telling their stories to a nation whose time it was to listen was a healing process that brought peace and maybe this lies at the root of the concept we are trying to explore: conciliation, meaning not only conciling ourselves with others but conciling ourselves with the past and our role in it, as victims, as survivors, as perpetrators, as politicians or maybe simply as people who did nothing more than just benefit from apartheid.

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