But it was in connection with the killing of 14-year-old activist Stompie Seipei that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela would forever be linked. In 1991, she was found guilty of kidnapping Stompie from the Methodist manse in Soweto and sentenced to six years in jail. Following an appeal, she paid a fine and never served a day. Darren Taylor and Angie Kapelianis report.

Transcript: http://www.sabctruth.co.za/sabctruth/portraitsright.htm#secondary

portraits of truth - former vlakplaas askari joe mamasela and former liberation icon winnie madikizela-mandela as enigmas

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The defining moment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission varies from person to person. For some it will always be the moment the Truth Commission opened the floodgates of human suffering in East London in 1996. Or those rare moments of reconciliation, intimacy and even destruction between victim and perpetrator. For others, it is the pall of brutality and senselessness that has been exhumed with plastic-sealed skeletons and shattered bones from unmarked graves. Then there is the so-called "triumph of the truth" – the day that the architect of the Truth Commission, the ANC, failed in court to stop the release of the TRC’s findings. Angie Kapelianis asked the men and women tasked with exposing the truth and promoting reconciliation what defined the Truth Commission for them.

Transcript: http://www.sabctruth.co.za/sabctruth/windowsright.htm#long

windows of history - reflective and self-analytical flashbacks keep open rather than close the doors of the truth commission

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The murder of Sizwe Kondile as told by Dirk Coetzee.

Transcript: http://www.sabctruth.co.za/sabctruth/worldsright.htm#raking

worlds of licence - self-confessed violators of human rights from across south africa's political landscape

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The Truth Commission wrapped up its symbolic round of public hearings into gross human rights abuses in Durban on the 10th of May 1996. Evidence heard at the Jewish Club provided some insight into the violence that was still ravaging KwaZulu-Natal long after South Africa’s first democratic elections had brought peace to most of the country. Many ANC members and supporters blamed the Inkatha Freedom Party in absentia for abuses they had suffered. A glaring gap was that the experiences of IFP members went untold in the same week that South Africa’s democratic Constitution was adopted. And in the same week that the National Party walked out of the Government of National Unity. Kenneth Makatees and Darren Taylor bring to mind what happened in Durban.

Transcript: http://www.sabctruth.co.za/sabctruth/bonesright.htm#glaring 

the beast of our dark past - Desmond Tutu

Transcript: http://www.sabctruth.co.za/sabctruth/bonesright.htm#beast 

"nkosi sikelel’ iafrika" and "die stem"

bones of memory - experiences and memories lay bare the pain and bravery of apartheid's victims

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Traditional healers from all over the country have marked Reconciliation Day at Vlakplaas by setting the record straight on a lot of misconceptions. They say men with HIV or Aids CANNOT be cured by abusing babies. They've also distanced themselves from witchcraft and the killing of people for body parts. With regard to Vlakplaas itself, the traditional healers have appointed a task team to investigate how the notorious farm can help to heal the country and the continent. Angie Kapelianis compiled this report.

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Credits: Angie Kapelianis

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The apartheid death-squad farm, Vlakplaas, outside Erasmia evokes wide-ranging emotions and memories. From killings and kidnappings to torture and interrogation. But this notorious valley of death and pain is about to be transformed. Some 700 traditional healers are going to camp along the Hennops River bank at Vlakplaas to debate its future and to perform reconciliation rituals. Angie Kapelianis spoke to parliamentarian and poet Wally Serote about the planned transformation of Vlakplaas.

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This documentary transports the listener through raw sound to the unprecedented public hearings at which survivors - victims, perpetrators and others – testified about gross human rights abuses since 1960. It contains award-winning stories with lots of gripping and contextual sound. Well-known musicians, storytellers, poets, former political prisoners, exiles and most of the Truth Commissioners thread the story of South Africa's past with music, song, poetry and commentary. This oral record aims to preserve for posterity the rich gamut of viewpoints, memories and emotions of South Africa's history - apartheid and democracy.

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Butterflies in the pit - Desmond Tutu

Transcript: http://www.sabctruth.co.za/sabctruth/bonesright.htm#butterflies

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