Word: gobodo-madikizela
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...Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela advocated continuing ambitious efforts to acknowledge past atrocities at this year's Rama Mehta Lecture, as Sheila Sisulu, South Africa's ambassador to the U.S., listened from the audience...
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-Madikizela said it is important ininterviews to recognize the humanity ofperpetrators, but said she finds it difficult todo at times. When she discovered that she shared abirthday with perpetrator she was interviewing,"It was very creepy. I just couldn't tell him,`Wow! We have the same birthday...
...talked about his two sons, one of which isthe same age of my son," Gobodo-Madikizela said."Such connections made him feel part of the humanworld...
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...