#8 The TRC Series 4/5 - The cost of reconciliation is not amnesia or impunity

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In this episode of the TRC Series, we fast-forward to Present-day South Africa where the ongoing court case over former anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol’s murder is set to become a watershed matter owing to an application to grant a complicit former police officer a stay in prosecution.

Season 1 / Episode 8 30 Apr 2019 English South Africa News · Government

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