Parties start submission to the TRC

Date: 19 Aug 1996
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

The major political parties began their submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). In a forty-three-page document the Freedom Front (FF) leader, General Constand Viljoen, emphasised the need for reconciliation and nation building. The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) acknowledged that its armed wing, Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA), targeted White civilians. It took responsibility for this, but made no effort to apologise. Click here to read National Party's (NP) submission before the TRC Click here For African National Congress' (ANC) submission before the TRC, Click here to read APLA's submission before the TRC

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01Kalley, J. A. et al (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to Mid-1997, Greenwood: London, p. 549.
02justice,'Truth and Reconciliation Commission',[online],Available at www.justice.gov.za[Accessed: 15 August 2013]

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Parties start submission to the TRC. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013283

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