Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a peace fellow of the Institute, told a crowd of about 150 chilling stories of her interviews with both the victims and perpetrators of apartheid...
Gobodo-Madikizela began her talk with a shorthistory of events that led to the TRC's creationin December 1995. Background information isnecessary, she said, "to give a clearunderstanding of the struggle of apartheid inSouth Africa...
According to Gobodo-Madikizela, the TRC wascreated to investigate crimes committed between1960 and 1994. It has heard testimony from over21,000 victims of apartheid...
Gobodo-Madikizelaserved on the TRC's Human Rights ViolationsCommittee for two years, interviewing perpetratorsof apartheid who were applying to the commissionfor amnesty...
After the lecture, Gobodo-Madikizela fended offquestions about the effectiveness of the TRC. Thecommittee was the product of a compromise betweenofficials who advocated the criminal courts andthose who believed the justice system was tooinfluenced by apartheid...