ABSTRACT
South Africa as a sovereign nation decided that a collective search for truth and justice was necessary for uncovering its apartheid past. The medium chosen was a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which was given legal status through an Act of Parliament in 1995. The TRC conducted its work from April 1996 to July 1998 through three committees: human rights violations, amnesty, and rehabilitation and reparation. Ultimately, it seems that no redemptive balance was struck about which stories of survival, healing, defiance, torture, killing, or fighting would prevail in defining the TRC outcome.
