Truth and reconciliation: The couth African experience
Truth and reconciliation: The couth African experience

Summary/Abstract: I was in my chambers not too long ago when I got a message from reception, “a man calling himself Henry is here to see you.” I went with a sense of intense interest to the security door to see Henry. He had telephoned me a couple of weeks earlier to say that he was going to testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in connection with the bomb attack on my life. I opened the door. I saw a man younger than myself, thinly built, fairish hair, staring at me as I stared at him. We had never met before. I let him through. We walked down the corridor, he with a military gait, I with what I call my judicial ambulatory stroll. Glancing at each other, we got to my chambers, we sat down, and he started explaining to me what he was going to tell the Truth Commission.

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