Truth and Reconciliation Commission

From apartheid-era crimes to contemporary police infiltration, South Africa confronts its past and present through simultaneous judicial inquiries, as witnesses testify before the Madlanga Commission, Truth and Reconciliation proceedings, and parliamentary oversight bodies.

Victims' families have leveled explosive allegations that political interference by former presidents Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma systematically undermined the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, leaving apartheid-era crimes unpunished for decades.