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EventA car bomb explodes at Ellis Park Rugby Stadium
… Linus Marais. At the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Dumakude, who applied for amnesty for this attack, … target as it was in a predominantly…
EventThe Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) disbands
… victims before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) most of these attacks and murders were random acts of … injuring fifty others. The disbanding of…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Sitting of Parliament to Report on the Processing of Some Presidential Pardons: Cape Town, 21 November 2007.
… would never be known. However, the critical work that the TRC did ensured that the nation got to know what happened to … the Promotion of National Unity and…
EventAlleged Mk members are killed
… later during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings that their killing was a well planned and … Dyk and Josef Venter. Read about the…
EventP.W. Botha appears in court
… to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The former South African State President appeared at a … investigate the documents, which were…
EventJudge Goldstone calls for “truth commission” on atrocities
… law in 1995 as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The TRC is based on the Promotion of National Unity and …
EventArchbishop Tutu retires as Archbishop of Cape Town and head of the Anglican Church in SA
… chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). According to him, his retirement was a way of … the work he had been doing in order to concentrate…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… Constitutional Assembly writes the new Constitution 1995 TRC begins its work 1998 Initial report of the TRC to the President 2003 Final report of the TRC to…
EventSt James Church massacre
… make full disclosure of the details of the crime, the TRC granted amnesty to Mlambisa, Mkumbuzi, and Makoma. … died in a car accident while on bail and…
EventPolitical activist Mohammed Shaik is born
… National Congress (ANC). References: http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/decisions/2001/ac21003.htm … http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/decisions/am01.htm …
EventDr Ribeiro and his wife are gunned down
… only emerged at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearing in 1997 that they were assassinated by Apartheid … applied for amnesty in connection…
EventRuth First is assassinated in Mozambique
… 34 countries. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) granted amnesty to Craig Williamson and Roger Raven, two … testimony by Craig Williamson and…
EventNotorious ‘SOWETO’ policeman dies
… in 16 June 1976. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1998 described him as a policeman "who already had a … interrogator of the security branch"…
EventTshifiwa Muofhe, a Lutheran Church elder suspected of complicity in the Sibasa Police Station bomb blast, dies in police custody
… In October 1996 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) heard testimonies from victims of police brutality in … in the 1980s. Phaswana and Phosiwa…
EventAdriaan Vlok applies for amnesty
… Vlok, applied to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for amnesty for his role in the bombing of a trade union … many of his former colleagues. In…
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… They were granted bail pending their appearance before the TRC. Nonxuba died in a car accident while on bail. Makoma … Manqina, Nofemela and Ntamo applied…
EventChief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo is shot dead
… probe by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), paying no attention to the conflicting judicial … targeted for attack in a planned hit-squad…
EventFormer Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF), General Jannie Geldenhuys is born in Kroonstad
… denied amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for the role he played in an attempt to release Charles … Fabian Ribeiro and his wife…
EventJeannette Schoon and her daughter are killed by a letter bomb
… appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to apply for amnesty. The TRC granted amnesty to the applicants. … 18 June 2014]|Pretoria., …
EventWinnie Mandela is found guilty
… (MUFC) . In 1997 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) reached a verdict that Madikizela-Mandela was guilty and … of Stompie Sepei. Click here to…
EventMagnus Malan’s trial ends
… Tutu, Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), promised that even if they were acquitted, the TRC was still likely to call them to account…
EventTutu is outraged by De Klerk’s denial of responsibility for apartheid’s atrocities
… according Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Tutu was almost in … journalist to comment on the NP's second…
EventGriffiths Mxenge is murdered
… Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) granted them amnesty. The record of the hearing on the … of Griffiths Mxenge before the Amnesty…
EventCOSATU headquarters Johannesburg is sabotaged
… appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to apply for the amnesty for their involvement in the bombing of COSATU House. The TRC was…
EventAdvocate Anton Lubowski secretary-general of the SWAPO is assassinated
… was corroborated by a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report, which dismissed claims, made by General Magnus … African Military Intelligence (SAMI)…
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… amnesty at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for the storming of the World Trade Centre (where … place), the 'Battle of Ventersdorp', and other…
EventBophuthatswana decide not to publish report of Smith Commission
… never published, The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was able to gain access to the report. The evidence … in order to protect the lives of the…
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
… Act, and after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in the 1990s, it was revealed that he was tortured and …
EventMore than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre
… hearings before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) the ANC said that the Kwamakhuta incident was one of a … the Kwamakhuta incident. Further…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… three years. 1995 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is set up under Archbishop Desmond Tutu . 8 January, … date of his inauguration as President…