Holding perpetrators accountable key to victims
APRIL 27, 1994, heralded the beginning of a new dawn in South Africa. Decades of white minority rule entrenched with apartheid’s racial segregation laws had ended.
The Government of National Unity established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that was set up under the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, No. 34 of 1995: “… a commission is a necessary exercise to enable South Africans to come to terms with their past on a morally accepted basis
