The Commission’s final report
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission set out its work in a six-volume final report. This section presents those volumes in full, chapter by chapter, so you can read the report here and move between chapters as you go. Open a volume to see its chapters, then read each one in order.
How the Commission was set up: its origins, mandate, guiding concepts, working methods and administration.
The record of gross human rights violations by the state and the liberation movements, inside and outside South Africa, from 1960 to 1994.
Regional profiles of victims across the Eastern Cape, Natal and KwaZulu, the Orange Free State, the Western Cape and the Transvaal.
What the Commission heard from institutions and sectors: business and labour, faith communities, the legal and health professions, the media and prisons, with hearings on conscription, children and youth, and women.
The Commission's analysis and findings, its reparation and rehabilitation policy, perpetrator perspectives, recommendations and reconciliation.
The amnesty process, the case for reparations, findings on the parties to the conflict, and the Commission's recommendations.