The long-awaited report of the South African Truth Commission contained wide-ranging accusations against all the main groups operating during the apartheid era. Here BBC News Online provides a guide to the commission's work, its main findings, and the implications for South Africa's future:

Leading figures accused
The Truth Commission publishes its historic report, which condemns atrocities by apartheid rulers but accuses black liberation leaders too.

• Truth report: The key points
• TRC findings: Winnie
• TRC findings: PW Botha
• TRC findings: Buthelezi
  
• President Mandela's address

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South Africans reconciled?
Greg Barrow in Johannesburg asks whether the commission has healed wounds from the past, or reopened them.

• TRC: The facts
• Seeking the truth: Timeline
• Antonette's story
• The voice of 'Prime Evil'

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Desmond Tutu
Chosen by Nelson Mandela to chair the Truth Commission, Desmond Tutu has brought moral authority to the long and traumatic hearings.

• Nelson Mandela
• FW de Klerk
• PW Botha
• Winnie Mandela

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