At the start of Chapter 6, Desmond Tutu states, “The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, which brought the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into existence, required that this commission should, in seeking to provide as complete a picture as possible of the gross human rights violations…try to rehabilitate the civil and human dignity of the victims who had suffered as a result of that conflict” (91).
The TRC, as its name suggests, was about testifying the truth as a means of reconciling a broken nation. Truth — as opposed to punitive measures — became a means to heal and move forward.
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