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World Service,05 May 1998,28 mins

Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa

African Perspective

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"When someone is sitting there and telling you what happened precisely to them, it hits you." Archbishop Desmond Tutu Victims were given a voice, perpetrators were given the chance to confess in return for freedom from prosectution and politicians were given a chance to come clean with truth and reconciliation in south Africa.

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