30 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY
ON October 29, 1998, our democracy’s founding president, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, received the first of the volumes of the report of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Presented by the TRC’s chairperson, our Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu, various recommendations were made on almost all aspects and various sectors of our fractured society.
As we bask in the aura of South Africa’s stellar arguments at the Inter- national Court of Justice at The Hague (whatever the outcome), it’s appropriate to look back, not in anger but with grave concern
