Country of My Skull Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
, by KROG, ANTJIE- ISBN: 9780812931297 | 0812931297
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 8/8/2000
In 1995, South Africa's new, black-majority government set up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate the murders and torture that occurred under state-sanctioned apartheid. Headed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the commission heard testimony from the perpetrators of the crimes as well as its victims and sought a way to reach some sort of tenuous closure.