The unique multimedia web resource brings together video material from
the SABC’s Truth Commission Special Report television series last
broadcast 15 years ago, the TRC Final Report and other documentation generated
by the Commission chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in the late nineties.
The launch coincides with Human Rights Month and the 10th anniversary of
the handover of the final recommendations of the TRC to then Pres. Thabo Mbeki
on 21 March 2003.
The Acting Group Executive: SABC News, Mr Jimi Matthews, says “the new
website will make the work of the TRC universally accessible and introduce a
new generation of South Africans to this vital period in the making of our
democracy.
“This initiative forms part of the SABC’s efforts to highlight apartheid
history, using some of its rich archival materials to provide a powerful window
into the conflicts of the past and the on-going challenges around
reconciliation facing South Africa today.”
The new website centres on the SABC’s 87-part Truth Commission
Special Report television series originally broadcast every week between 21
April 1996 and 29 March 1998. This series has been brought out of the archives,
digitised and repackaged by SAHA as an interactive tool enabling users to
revisit the work of the TRC.
All episodes of the television series have been catalogued, transcribed,
indexed and linked to relevant sections of the official TRC Final Report,
transcripts from TRC hearings, amnesty decisions, submissions made to the
TRC and other related resources, to form a seamless searchable resource
intended to make the work of the TRC more accessible and to support on-going
transitional justice and reconciliation work in South Africa.
The website has been
developed by SAHA in conjunction with SABC Digital News and SABC Business
Development. It is based on the SAHA/SABC Truth Commission
Special Report Multimedia Product produced by SAHA from 2008 – 2010,
developed primarily with the financial support of the Charles Stewart
Mott Foundation,
with additional funding provided by the Atlantic Philanthropies.
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For
more on what happened to the TRC recommendations over the past 10 years, watch
Fokus this Sunday at 18:30 on SABC2.
ENDS
Issued by:
Group
Communications
Media Enquiries: Mr. Kaizer
Kganyago (SABC Spokesperson)
082 306 8888
Ms. Catherine Kennedy (SAHA Director)
072 682 6240
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