Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa was set up in 1995 after the end of apartheid to investigate gross human rights violations committed between 1960 and 1994. Chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, it held public hearings from 1996 in which victims testified and perpetrators could receive amnesty if they made full disclosure of politically motivated crimes. Its report, presented from 1998, became a model for truth commissions elsewhere.