Opinion

New hope for victims' families that apartheid crimes will be investigated

TRC commissioners back call for cold cases to be reopened

24 February 2019 - 00:00

By tymon smith AND Tymon Smith

When the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) handed its final report to parliament in 2003, the country was assured by then president Thabo Mbeki that perpetrators of human rights violations who had not applied for amnesty or were denied amnesty by the commission would be prosecuted.

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