Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report

Released on 21 March 2003

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• Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
  
• Section 1 : Report of the Amnesty Committee
  
  • Introduction
    
  • Chapter 1: The Legal Basis of the Amnesty Process
    
  • Chapter 2: Administrative Report
    
  • Chapter 3: Modus Operandi of the Committee
    
  • Chapter 4: Legal Challenges
    
  • Chapter 5: Some Reflections on the Amnesty Process
    
• Section 2: Report of the Reparation and Rehabilitation Committee
  
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
    
  • Chapter 2: The Case for Reparation and Rehabilitation: Domestic and International Law
    
  • Chapter 3: The Argument for Reparation: Comparative and Customary Law
    
  • Chapter 4: The Argument for Reparation: What the Witnesses Say
    
  • Chapter 5: Reparations and the Business Sector
    
  • Chapter 6: Reparations and Civil Society
    
  • Chapter 7: Implications and Concluding Comments
    
  • Chapter 8: Administrative Report
    
• Section 3: The Intersection between the Work of the Human Rights Violations Committee and the Amnesty Committee
  
  • Chapter 1: The Former South African Government and its Security Forces
    
  • Chapter 2: The ANC and Allied Organisations
    
  • Chapter 3: The Inkatha Freedom Party
    
  • Chapter 4: The Pan Africanist Congress
    
  • Chapter 5: Azanian People’s Organisation
    
  • Chapter 6: Right-Wing Groups
    
• Section 4: Report of the Human Rights Violations Committee
  
  • Chapter 1: Abductions,Disappearances and Missing Persons
    
  • Chapter 2: Exhumations
    
  • Chapter 3: Administrative Report
    
  • Appendix: The ‘Third Force’
    
• Section 5: Findings and Recommendations
  
  • Chapter 1: The Legal Framework within which the Commission made Findings in the Context of International Law
    
  • Appendix 1: Applicability of the Geneva Conventions
    
  • Appendix 2
    
  • Chapter 2: Holding the State Accountable
    
  • Chapter 3: Holding the ANC Accountable
    
  • Appendix: ANC Declaration to ICRC
    
  • Chapter 4: Holding the IFP Accountable
    
  • Appendix 1: Schedule of Changes and Corrections
    
  • Appendix 2: Appendix Concerning IFP Findings
    
  • Chapter 5: Holding the PAC Accountable
    
  • Chapter 6: Holding Right-Wing Groups Accountable
    
  • Chapter 7: Recommendations
    
• Section 6: Administration
  • Report of the Chief Executive Officer
    
  • Managerial Reports
    
  • Annual Financial Statements
    
• Errata to the final report
  
• Acronyms

Report obtained from the South African Government Information website.