Interview with Tshepo Madlingozi: The mi...

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At the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) perpetrators of apartheid atrocities participated in a truth telling exercise in exchange for amnesty and the envisioned result was reconciliation. But there exists a strong sentiment that justice was glaringly omitted from these proceedings.

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