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...former member of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the organization charged with investigation crimes committed under apartheid, spoke about her work before a packed house at the Bunting Institute last night...
Gobodo-Madikizela began her talk with a shorthistory of events that led to the TRC's creationin December 1995. Background information isnecessary, she said, "to give a clearunderstanding of the struggle of apartheid inSouth Africa...
According to Gobodo-Madikizela, the TRC wascreated to investigate crimes committed between1960 and 1994. It has heard testimony from over21,000 victims of apartheid...
Gobodo-Madikizelaserved on the TRC's Human Rights ViolationsCommittee for two years, interviewing perpetratorsof apartheid who were applying to the commissionfor amnesty...
...Higley said the seven-day period was not long enough and that he will request a further extension today. The city last week hired an outside firm, TRC Environmental Consultants of Hartford, Connecticut, to investigate lab security and safety. The Cambridge City Council also recently launched its own scientific advisory committee to make recommendaions on technical matters, although neither group has had time to complete its inquiries...