South Africa: Tensions Around a Commission Investigating the Lack of Post-Apartheid Justice

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In South Africa, in 1996, Nelson Mandela had set up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. If the agents of apartheid agreed to tell about the atrocities they had committed, they were not prosecuted. Only very few of them agreed to cooperate. And, despite everything, there was almost no prosecution. Faced with the pressure of the families of victims, Cyril Ramaphosa finally launched almost thirty years later a commission of inquiry to understa…