Mpilo Desmond Tutu

Date: 29 November, 1995

The anti-apartheid activist and Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu was appointed chairperson of the seventeen-member Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) by president Nelson Mandela. The Commission was set up to deal with the atrocities of the past and guide South Africans of all races on a reconciliatory path.

Click here to read Tutu's address to the first gathering of the Commission

References

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• www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1624720,00.html
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