post-apartheid

Truth and Reconciliation

South Africa’s imperfect progress, 20 years after the Truth & Reconciliation Commission

Culture

After decades of institutionalized racism under apartheid, South Africa’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission helped a divided nation watch, weep, reflect & come together — even if imperfectly. What is its legacy now, two decades later? How much of the hope South Africans had for what their future might be together has been borne out? Host Mary Kay Magistad visited South Africa to see how South Africans from different communities feel about what difference the TRC has, and hasn’t, made in their lives.