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Truth and Reconciliation Tuesday, 16 February, 1999, 14:18 GMT
Truth Commission report: At a glance
The long-awaited report of the South African Truth Commission contained wide-ranging accusations against all the main groups operating during the apartheid era. Here BBC News Online provides a guide to the commission's work, its main findings, and the implications for South Africa's future:

Leading figures accused
The Truth Commission publishes its historic report, which condemns atrocities by apartheid rulers but accuses black liberation leaders too.


South Africans reconciled?
Greg Barrow in Johannesburg asks whether the commission has healed wounds from the past, or reopened them.


Desmond Tutu
Chosen by Nelson Mandela to chair the Truth Commission, Desmond Tutu has brought moral authority to the long and traumatic hearings.

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